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# averting

«averting» in Mova's school dictionary: **Stopping something bad from happening** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (averting), the -ing form of «avert»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stopping something bad from happening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#m1)

2) Turning your eyes or face away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news and stories: «averting disaster», «averting her eyes». Phrases: «averting a crisis».

### examples

- The pilot's quick thinking was key to averting a crash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x1)
- She kept averting her eyes from the scary film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x2)
- Averting a flood meant building a wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x3)
- They succeeded in averting a strike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x4)
- Averting his gaze, he said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x5)
- Firefighters worked all night, averting disaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x6)
- Nemesis was worshipped by the Romans, (who invoked her on the Capitol), as a divinity who possessed the power of averting the pernicious consequences of envy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/#x7)

### note

Verb: avert, averted. Do not confuse with «avert» and «advert» (an advertisement).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «averting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/averting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.