AVERT

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Traducere în limba română

avert verb tranzitiv

1. a înlătura; a para (şi fig.);

to aversion a blow a para o lovitură.

2. a abate (gândul); a îndepărta;

to aversion danger a îndepărta / a preveni primejdia.

3. a întoarce (în altă parte), a îndepărta;

he could not keep his eyes aversioned nu-şi putea lua / dezlipi ochii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was near: and as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it—as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent my knees, nor moved my lips—it came: in full heavy swing the torrent poured over me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Always to be presented with the date of her own birth and see no marriage follow but that of a youngest sister, made the book an evil; and more than once, when her father had left it open on the table near her, had she closed it, with averted eyes, and pushed it away.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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