Question

avert General Camacho's announcement of lower food prices averted an immediate worker's revolt. əˈvərt

Accepted Answer

(1) To turn (your eyes or gaze) away or aside. (2) To avoid or prevent. Sensitive people avert their eyes from gory accidents and scenes of disaster. But the accident or disaster might itself have been averted if someone had been alert enough. Negotiators may avert a strike by all-night talks. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, it seemed that nuclear catastrophe was barely averted. Aversion means “dislike or disgust”—that is, your feeling about something you can't stand to look at.

word	avert
definition	(1) To turn (your eyes or gaze) away or aside. (2) To avoid or prevent.
eg_sentence	General Camacho's announcement of lower food prices averted an immediate worker's revolt.
explanation	Sensitive people avert their eyes from gory accidents and scenes of disaster. But the accident or disaster might itself have been averted if someone had been alert enough. Negotiators may avert a strike by all-night talks. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, it seemed that nuclear catastrophe was barely averted. Aversion means “dislike or disgust”—that is, your feeling about something you can't stand to look at.
IPA	əˈvərt

Avert Eyes Averted Turn Gaze Avoid Prevent General