Usually means: Prevents something from occurring; avoids.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. averts: Merriam-Webster
  2. averts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. averts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Averts, averts: Wordnik
  5. averts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. averts: Wiktionary
  7. averts: Dictionary.com
  8. averts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. averts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. averts: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. averts: Medical dictionary

(Note: See avert as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (avert)

verb:  (transitive) To turn aside or away.
verb:  (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
▸ Also see avert

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