Crossword-Solution: AVERTS
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AVERTS | anagram | EVARTS, STARVE, TRAVES, VASTER, VERSTA |
We have 34 clues for the answer “AVERTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wards off, as danger | 1 answer |
| Sees coming and wards off | 1 answer |
| Moves away, as one's eyes | 1 answer |
| Keeps from occurring | 1 answer |
| Skirts, as disaster | 1 answer |
| Heads off at the pass | 1 answer |
| Forfends | 1 answer |
| Turns away, as one's eyes | 1 answer |
| Turns away, as the eyes | 1 answer |
| Avoids, as disaster | 1 answer |
| Wards off vaster changes (6) | 1 answer |
| Turns the other way | 2 answers |
| Turns away from | 3 answers |
| Deflects | 3 answers |
| Sidetracks. | 3 answers |
| Staves off | 4 answers |
| Precludes | 4 answers |
| Parries | 4 answers |
| Keeps from happening | 4 answers |
| Forestalls | 4 answers |
| Nips in the bud | 5 answers |
| Turns aside | 5 answers |
| Heads (off) | 6 answers |
| Fends (off) | 6 answers |
| Turns away | 8 answers |
| Shields | 8 answers |
| Sidesteps | 8 answers |
| Wards (off) | 8 answers |
| A MACHINE THAT CUTS THE HEADS OFF GRAIN AND MOVES THEM INTO A WAGON | 10 answers |
| Dodges | 10 answers |
| Prevents | 11 answers |
| Ducks | 14 answers |
| Avoids | 14 answers |
| Thwarts | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVERTS (5)
When introduced to the saloons--delusively called _de conversation_, he begins by staring fixedly at the chandeliers, the ormolu clocks, and the rich draperies, and resolutely averts his eyes from the serried ranks of punters or players, and the Pactolus, whose sands are circulating on the green cloth on the table.
Why be thus at Fate's mercy always, when with a little ordinary second sight...Yet no! That is the worst of a presentiment: it never averts evil, it does but unnerve the victim.
You--must have had a--a--some one---- But there is such a change in her face, such rigidity of her whole body, that he stops and averts his eyes.
There would have been no war in 1812 if, in the previous decade, America, instead of announcing that "peace was her passion," instead of acting on the theory that unpreparedness averts war, had been willing to go to the expense of providing a fleet of a score of ships of the line.
The ruby appeases thirst, strengthens cardiac action and averts plague and "thunderbolts." The diamond heals diseases, and is a specific against epilepsy or the "possession" by evil spirits: this is also the specialty of the emerald, which, moreover, cures ophthalmia and the stings of scorpions and bites of venomous reptiles, blinding them if placed before their eyes.
Quotes with AVERTS (3)
Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! Arousefor you must justify meyou must answer. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness. I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and …
It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies outside anybody's area of original training, or orthodox criticism (in Ellen Moers' words) averts its refined and weary eyes from what only feminists consider important or see as problematic. Much anti-feminist criticism of feminist writing can best be answered with, 'Yeah? And where were you at the time, twinkletoes? Writing your ten-thousandth essay on King Lear?
a little modesty averts disgrace
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Appears in: AARP, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 92 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).