Averting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AVERTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• AVERT, to ward off
• prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence)
• turn away (one's eyes or thoughts)
NOUN:
• the act of preventing something from occurring
• the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to turn away

Words related to AVERTING

avert8 averted11 averts9

Words that contain AVERTING

extraverting23

How to use AVERTING in a sentence

• Mademoiselle Chiron followed Holymead from the country on the 18th of August with the intention of averting a tragedy.
• It was a proud family, and Mildred being dead, the concealment of the birth of her child was resorted to, as a means of averting a fancied disgrace.
• It was as in a dream when we must see evil approach without power to raise an averting hand.
• So far her good fortune had prevailed in averting the punishment but too well earned by her past life.
• They threaten the last small hope for averting millions of deaths in the next set of faith-justified oil wars.
• You have all one feeling, you have all one desire, that of averting the attempts of Marcus Antonius from the republic, of extinguishing his frenzy and crushing his audacity.
• So I was called in to assist in averting the catastrophe.
• It has been sent to me by a relative, thinking it might be of service in averting the punishment that awaits me.
• The Virgin sits in a crouching attitude at His right side, slightly averting her head, as though in painful expectation of the coming sentence.
• Wurtz, who gave me to understand several days since that he saw no other means of averting the evil we dread than those already adopted.
• The means of averting the pains and penalties of working in the sun, were also attended to, as indeed the great preliminary measure in this new enterprise.
• Nobody had any illusions on the possibility of averting war, least of all the two powers principally interested.
• Some unknown and terrible danger threatened Jupiter, the secret of averting which only Prometheus knew.
• The decree that is impending, however, is such that prayer and entreaty can succeed in averting it.
• At this juncture Sir Henry de Villiers, Chief Justice of Cape Colony, came to Pretoria for the purpose of effecting a compromise and averting a crisis.
• Fortunately the phonograph now gives promise of averting this peril by bringing up its reproduction of absolute music near to its vocal standard.
• The Ring cared only for men who would unite in plundering the public treasury, and be vigilant in averting the detection of the theft.
• That this house is fully sensible of the evil of a continued inadequacy of the public income to meet the expenditure, and will take measures for averting the same in future years.
• Many expressed their fear of war and urged the convention to agree to some plan of settlement as the only means of averting war.
• The chances of averting the doom seemed to be faint, but still a human life was at stake, and we could not rest till every effort had been made.
• I did so suspiciously, and without averting my eyes from my visitors.
• The great sky-fire made no pretence of averting its rays from his uncovered head, and the lesser creatures of the ground did not hesitate to walk over his once sacred form.
• The motive for cultivating Virtue and banishing Vice arises from the consequences of each, as the means of multiplying pleasures and averting or lessening pains.
• Mortimer, but after a pause, and reluctantly, averting his eyes from the accursed thing.
• His friends were leaving him, averting their faces, turning away to their own affairs.
• These girls walked past the hunter, averting their eyes when within his range of vision, but stealing many a sidelong glance at his impressive face and noble proportions.
• For averting the threatened contraction two courses have been suggested, either of which is probably feasible.
• Thus he drew him to the carriage door, the driver averting his face from the spectacle, far from offering to assist.
• He who had that meaning was averting no inundation.
• One, at sight of her, shrank with a gasp, and, averting his shaggy head till the long white locks covered his face, fled back into the crypt.
• Religious Ideas Chinese religion is inherently an attitude toward the spirits or gods with the object of obtaining a benefit or averting a calamity.
• While a hope of averting anarchy and civil war remains, Gregory will not adopt the surest means of inflicting both.
• Sincerely desirous of averting war, he resolved to communicate this condition of affairs to the Virginians, in the hope that they might dissipate the impending war-cloud.

Similar words containing AVERT without suffix ing

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