Definition of "averted" []

• Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of avert. (verb)

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• "My husband argued in this way: -- If these people had been guilty of a crime, which could not now be ameliorated or averted, it would be a straining point for me to take advantage of what I had learnt by accident and to bring them to justice; but that as in this case a great national trouble _might be averted_, and many lives saved, by timely information, it was my duty to exert myself in the interests of the community by putting a check on their movements."
• "A sacrifice by Edgardo Alfonzo advanced the runners, but Jackson again averted trouble by getting Neifi Perez to pop out and striking out pinch hitter Ray Durham."
• "Lincoln has issued a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving for the late victories, and on account of the danger of foreign intervention and invasion having been averted from the country, and had submitted to Congress a new treaty between Great Britain and the United States regarding the suppression of the slave trade."