Čo znamená avert v angličtine a aká je definícia avert?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť avert výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

avert Význam & definícia

0 to prevent something bad from happening:
- to avert a crisis/conflict/strike/famine
- to avert disaster/economic collapse
1 to turn away your eyes or thoughts:
- I averted my gaze/eyes while he dressed.
- We tried to avert our thoughts from our massive financial problems.
2 to prevent something bad from happening; avoid:
- The last-minute agreement averted renewed fighting.
3 to turn away your eyes or thoughts:
- The shy man was standing before me, his eyes averted.
4 to prevent something bad from happening:
- avert a crisis/disaster He argued that the way to avert an economic crisis is for individuals to follow their usual spending habits.
- avert industrial action/a strike By law, the president may appoint a board to avert a strike that could result in widespread interruption of U.S. rail service.

One study (7) estimated that for an experienced sports surgeon, 4% of the arthroscopies could have been averted compared with 14% for the other physicians.
A source of variation among studies estimating the proportion of potentially avoidable arthroscopies is the criteria used to consider that the procedure would be averted.
One motivation for combating genetic disease is the hope of saving money by averting births of infants with costly disorders.
In the results section, the authors estimate the number of cases of childhood morbidity that could be averted in each pollution clean-up scenario.
The panoptic state had no intention of averting its gaze once it reached the threshold of the family home.
Still, a modest expansion of day-care provision was projected to allow women to work, thus averting the feared shortage of labour in the industrial sector.
He averted syncope by tensing the muscle of his arms and legs or bending forwards as if to tie his shoelaces.
Usually, though, this relationship averts the greater harm of the child's lacking all parental relations.