Avert is valid Scrabble Word

Is avert a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is avert valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for AVERT in dictionary:

VERB:

to ward off
prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence)
To turn away.
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
turn away or aside
turn away
turn away (one's eyes or thoughts)

NOUN:

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.\"

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to turn away

Words related to AVERT

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How to use AVERT in a sentence

I thought that if there was any danger my first care was to avert suspicion.
In accordance with the sentiments of the age, there was every form of penance to avert the anger of God and escape the flames of hell.
He was in time to avert the collision that appeared inevitable, but in his excitement overlooked his own danger, and was knocked down and terribly injured by the train he flagged.
But, touched by a sentiment of humanity, it was his wish to avert from me what his better reason led him to think the calamity of our race.
It hinges on a prophecy made by a Gipsey, in which the person to whom the prophecy is made, in endeavoring to avert it, hastens its accomplishment.
The mind does not receive ideas until external objects occasion perception in it through impressions, which it is not able to avert.
When my neighbours are endangered from a cause in which I am personally involved, I am naturally called upon to avert an evil that may extend to myself.
If we can avert war with Germany for twenty years, we shall never have to fight Germany.
The invasion of Peloponnesos had broken down, and nothing could avert the fall of Nauplia.
As he advanced, embassy after embassy met him, and would fain by presents of money avert invasion.

Now, Hans, although he had never set foot there before, seemed to have learned all the traditions of the place, and what rites were necessary to avert its curse.
The great European struggle which the nations have so long struggled to avert has begun.
When he saw me he threw himself upon his knees and implored me to save him, but I told him I had no power to avert his death even if I would.
We are careful to avoid whatever may excite him, and yet we can not avert dark hours, nay, days.
After a moment there was a far-off sound of church bells which were being rung to avert the lightning, and then came a downpour of rain.
But we will not disturb our present harmony with the unpleasant anticipation of misfortunes which we still hope to avert.
It was to avert the danger of people becoming Romanists from ignorance of Church principles.
At other moments she felt it was laid upon her to speak and avert a catastrophe.
It was not easy to avert her thoughts from her dainty bedroom of yesterday.
Whether prepared or unprepared, the scene was one from which we gladly avert our eyes.
With the last harbor of refuge closed against us, I hastened back and did all that was human to avert the impending doom, every man and horse available being pressed into service.
I might have done something to avert, or, at least, lessen the greater one.
He seemed to stand in the path as a menace, an evil influence that she could neither avert nor withstand.
And to avert from me the wrath of Joachim, the high priest of Jerusalem, I have sent already a messenger to Jerusalem to bring a licence that this matter may be lawful.
They are the legitimate and necessary fruits of the numerous compromises by which well-meaning men have sought to avert a crisis which could only be postponed.
By order of the clergy, prayers were offered incessantly in the churches by day and by night, that God would avert this terrible invasion.
Several attempts were made by other divinities to avert the conflict, but without success.
If it can avert no evil, it can, at least, cause none.

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