a vertとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈvɝt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈvɜːt/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)t

動詞

avert (third-person singular simple present averts, present participle averting, simple past and past participle averted)

1. (transitive) To turn aside or away.

   I averted my eyes while my friend typed in her password.

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Unity in Religion”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

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

2. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

   Synonym: forestall

   How can the danger be averted?

   • 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700:

     Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:hinder

派生語

参照

• “avert”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• tarve, trave, Trave, Vater