Synonyms:
debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head_off, stave_off, fend_off, avoid, ward_off
Meaning: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
Synonyms:
obviate, rid_of, eliminate
Meaning: do away with
Usage examples
It's a difficulty. But we'll obviate it--somehow.
We obviate monotony in dress by replenishing our wardrobes.
The difficulty thus placed in my way I, determined to obviate in the following manner.
My uncle employed a very simple expedient to obviate this difficulty. He uncoiled a cord of the thickness of a finger, and four hundred feet long; first he dropped half of it down, then he passed it round a lava block that projected conveniently, and threw the other half down the chimney.