All 7 Uses of
avert
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I could beg you to do it in order to avert a national disaster.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- There was the thought that his old workers had always been able to avert disaster; any of them would have seen e indications of a hang-up and known how to prevent it; but there were not many of them left, and he had to employ whatever men he could find.†
Chpt 2.3
- She ran through the train's only coach, where some passengers slept in contorted poses of exhaustion, while others, awake and still, sat hunched, like animals waiting for a blow, making no move to avert it In the vestibule of the coach, she stopped.†
Chpt 2.10
- I had no way to avert it and no power to save you.†
Chpt 3.3
- It had gone into the planless, thankless work of racing from emergency to emergency, of delaying the collapse of a railroad-a month like a waste pile of disconnected days, each given to averting the disaster of the moment.†
Chpt 3.4
- The chairman averted panic and called the session to order.†
Chpt 3.5
- Why hadn't they averted their own doom and spared him his years of thankless torture?†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something