What is the meaning of AVERT. Phrases containing AVERT
See meanings and uses of AVERT!AVERT
AVERT
AVERT
AVERT
AVERT
AVERT
Acronyms & AI meanings
Pastoral Community Development Project
Bible Society in Northern Ireland
Walled Towns Friendship Circle
Koramangala Methodist Church
Crime Scene Investigation Unit
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park
Delaware Athletic Training Assoc
Centro Europeo Dell Educazione
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
Public Education Trust
AVERT
AVERT
AVERT
a.
Driving or thrusting away; averting.
n.
An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le.
n.
Advertisement.
n.
One who, or that which, averts.
a.
Capable of being averted; preventable.
a.
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
n.
Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
n.
To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
n.
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
imp. & p. p.
of Avert
n.
An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
v. t.
To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
n.
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Avert
v. t.
To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
a.
Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
v. t.
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
n.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
n.
A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
v. t.
To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
AVERT
AVERT