avert
verb (used with object)
to turn away or aside.
are averting
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present progressiveof avert.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"The risk they are averting is not the loss of their seat," explains Republican Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, "but that they have to go home and face a rigorous challenge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Downing Street, Whitehall, S. W. Mr. Raemaekers' powerful work gives form and colour to the menace which the Allies are averting from the liberty, the civilization, and the humanity of the future.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers
