English-Italian translations for avert

• evitare
  Fortunatamente, in quest'occasione è stato possibile evitare la tragedia. Fortunately, this time it was possible to avert a tragedy.
  Grazie a Dio siamo riusciti ad evitare tutto questo. Thank God we have managed to avert all that.
  Un’azione immediata della comunità internazionale potrebbe contribuire a evitare tale eventualità. Action now by the international community could help avert this situation.

Definition of avert

• To turn aside or away
• To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of
• To turn away
• To turn away

Examples

• To avert the eyes from an object.
• How can the danger be averted?

Related words

• travertine
• averting
• extravert
• incontravertable
• beavertail
• avertable
• extraverted
• megavertebrate
• Haverthwaite