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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Use "averted" in a sentence
"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."