Usually means: Eliminate the need for something.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word obviate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. obviate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obviate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obviate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obviate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obviate: Vocabulary.com
  6. obviate: Wordnik
  7. obviate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obviate: Wiktionary
  9. obviate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obviate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obviate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Obviate, obviate: Dictionary.com
  13. obviate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Obviate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. obviate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. obviate: Rhymezone
  17. Obviate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. obviate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. obviate: Free Dictionary
  20. obviate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. obviate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obviate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. obviate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obviate: A Word A Day

(Note: See obviated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
noun:  (linguistics) Synonym of obviative
adjective:  (linguistics) Synonym of obviative

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