Both Uses
avert
in
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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- He does not say so, but I can read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes.
*averted = turned away or aside
- Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something
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(2)
(avert as in: avert a strike) prevent from happening
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)