Obviate is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for OBVIATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to forestall
remove (a need or difficulty)
avoid or prevent (something undesirable)
make unnecessary
To meet in the way.
To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
do away with
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to prevent or eliminate by effective measures

Words related to OBVIATE

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Words that contain OBVIATE

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How to use OBVIATE in a sentence

Every reasonable precaution will be taken to obviate the necessity for these formations.
This condition of affairs Orde had determined, if possible, to obviate.
It may be said, that the intervention of a jury, in the second instance, would obviate the danger.
But lastly, the first and second clauses of the third section of the first article, not only obviate all possibility of doubt, but destroy the pretext of misconception.
The propositions which have been made for supplying the omission have rather served to illustrate than to obviate the difficulty of the thing.
Chairman, I will endeavor to obviate what the gentleman last up has said.
However, those of their members who were abolitionists were willing to obviate this objection, if possible.
We shall not hesitate to concur in such further measures as may best obviate any ill effects which might be apprehended from the failure of those negotiations.
There is one accusation still remaining, by which I am more sensibly affected, and which I am, therefore, desirous to obviate, before it has too long prevailed.
But I have a plan which will obviate any further difficulty.

In order to obviate this mischief, I prepared two strong ships, one patache, and two galleys, with which to make the said coast safe.
It would obviate much controversy, for the greater part of our disputes arise from the vagueness of the terms we use.
However well your suggestion might obviate the difficulty, I have an alternative which I think would equally suit.
Why seek to eliminate it from the schoolroom or minimize the sterner law? A word or two will obviate what might perhaps become a serious misunderstanding here.
Before leaving this subject there is one more point upon which I should touch, if only to obviate a possible misunderstanding.
This, done half a dozen times daily, will insure accurate passing, catching and obviate fumbling.
But the mode now adopted in the navy of substituting iron tanks for wooden casks, tends greatly to obviate this disadvantage.
The method seems singular, but its object is to prevent the leaving of any empty resonance space, and to obviate any interruptions that could affect the perfection of the tone.
Therefore, wisely and opportunely made, a proper demonstration in support of a just demand may obviate the ultimate necessity of war.
The author, in order to obviate this objection, has cancelled some few passages in the foregoing chapters.
To obviate all clamor, the articles of marriage were drawn as favorable as possible for the interests and security, and even grandeur of England.
In order to obviate this, Pitt proposed to add a clause, limiting the number of troops for the payment of which the board of control were empowered to issue orders.
To obviate this defect more complicated curvometers or kartometers have been devised.
I have but one thing to say, either to obviate or to answer such an objection, if it shall be made to me, which is, that I loved Mr Dryden.
Darwin, though maintaining silence in respect to it, retreated from his original position in the direction that would most obviate Mr.
To obviate this difficulty, the joint should be made similar to those used on scales.
It cost him, for example, several years of most expensive trial to obviate the objection to India-rubber fabrics caused by the liability of the gum to peel from the cloth.
It is to obviate this evil that we propose giving a few plain hints on evening dress.
It has now been made sufficiently attractive to obviate the need for that.
Yet there is no practical effort made to discover the reason and obviate it.
In place of the antique harmony of character and situation, we have here a painful incongruity that no study or skill can obviate.
I again urge a change in the Federal judicial system to meet the wants of the people and obviate the delays necessarily attending the present condition of affairs in our courts.
This system of special juries, in the organization of her judiciary, was intended to obviate the necessity of a court of chancery.

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