verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
avert a crisis (= stop it happening )
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More talks were proposed in an attempt to avert the crisis.
avert your eyes literary (= look away from something )
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He averted his eyes from the body.
avert your gaze (= look away )
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Miller averted his eyes from the beggars that lined the streets.
avert/avoid a tragedy (= prevent it from happening )
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The owners could have done something to avert the tragedy.
prevent/avert a catastrophe
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Sudan requires food immediately to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
prevent/avert a disaster
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They called for an international programme to prevent the disaster happening again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
narrowly
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A second jet disaster was narrowly averted in Bogota on Thursday.
■ NOUN
catastrophe
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Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe .
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What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
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We are the last generation who can avert this catastrophe .
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Are there no other ways of intervening in their environment to avert the catastrophe Walinsky describes?
crisis
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Although this agreement averted a government crisis , Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30.
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My initial reaction was relief: We had averted another financial crisis .
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Nigel Clough did more than anyone to avert a crisis for his old man.
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A global concerted effort is required to avert a global health crisis .
danger
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We can avert that danger here.
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Animals are killed only to avert mystical dangers which cause illness and death.
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Paul Deas averted more danger for the home men as he ended a fine run by Neil Duffy.
disaster
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At a fairly young age I learnt to sniff out danger and step into choppy conversations to skilfully avert disaster .
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The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster .
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Leader comment, page 18 Driver averts tanker disaster .
face
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Martin waved but Louise averted her face , pretending not to see them.
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A pair of University students passing by hastily averted their faces to hide their giggles.
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At first we would wince inwardly as eyes were averted from our faces when we opened conversation with another human being.
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And, over the years, he had learned to avert his face , to sidestep, to damp down the fires.
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He said nothing at all and she averted her face , staring out of the window, hoping he hadn't noticed.
gaze
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This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze .
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Neither of us cries but we are obviously repressing deep emotions, and peo-ple, sensing this, avert their gaze .
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Art, it seems, is the perpetual recidivist, always ducking back into the aesthetic as soon as vigilant life averts its gaze .
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In it the artist portrays a disheveled thirty-one-year-old Morisot averting her gaze from the viewer.
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I averted my gaze and felt uncomfortable.
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He averted his gaze from the Fermoyle house, where Jozia might be watching him this very moment.
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No, but I've averted my gaze a few times.
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I averted my gaze , taking in a deep breath then just to prove I could.
strike
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Leading up to all this, there were days when we spent 30 straight hours trying to avert a strike .
trade
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Embattled Mr Major did manage to avert an immediate world trade war.
■ VERB
keep
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By and large he kept them averted .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It may already be too late to avert another disaster.
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Talks will be held today in a final attempt to avert strike action.
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Using an "automatic train stop" could have averted the disaster.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pair of University students passing by hastily averted their faces to hide their giggles.
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And in response, I promise you that we shall do our best to avert it, or at least contain it.
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Another world crisis averted through the high art of diplomacy.
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Fears of large-scale coastal flooding were averted as the fierce winds shifted at the last minute.
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I avert my eyes and wish I were them.
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I averted my gaze, taking in a deep breath then just to prove I could.
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The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster.
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The information had reached Adamowski and, if it were true, there was no way a scandal could be averted.