Obviated vs Avert - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between obviated and avert

is that obviated is past tense of obviate while avert is to turn aside or away.

(head)

(obviate)

(obviat)

To bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation.

They saved enough money for their purchase and obviated the need to borrow.

* 1826', Richard Reece, ''A Practical Dissertation on the Means of '''Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness , page 181:

A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.

* 2004 , David J. Anderson, Agile Management for Software Engineering , page 180:

Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.

* 2008 , William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: In Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology , page 163:

Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient?s problems.

(en verb)

To turn aside or away.

To avert the eyes from an object.

To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

How can the danger be averted ?

* Milton

To avert his ire.

* Prior

Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.

(archaic) To turn away.

* Thomson

Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.

(archaic) To turn away.

* Francis Bacon

When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.

* averter * avertress

* (to prevent) * See also

* " avert" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .

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