Antonyms for avertingavert·ing

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1. avertingnoun

   the act of preventing something from occurring

   "averting danger was his responsibility"

   Synonyms:
   aversion

2. aversion, avertingnoun

   the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away

   "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"

   Synonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, distaste

How to use averting in a sentence?

1. Peter Altmaier:

   We will help where we can, but there is no way of completely averting the consequences of this unilateral withdrawal.

2. Martin Griffiths:

   Yemen needs its leaders to focus every minute of their time on averting and mitigating the potentially disastrous consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak.

3. Michael Grosse-Broemer:

   I'm not so sure anymore if the Greek government is really interested in averting damage for the people of Greece.

4. Antony Blinken:

   We continue to believe, as I said this morning, that that would be the best path forward -- a return to compliance off both sides to the JCPOA, to make sure that we are putting Iran's nuclear program back in a box and averting any kind of crisis.

5. Downing Street:

   Such an intervention was directed exclusively to averting a humanitarian catastrophe caused by the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons, and the action was the minimum judged necessary for that purpose.

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