obviate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
obviate (obviates, present participle obviating; past and past participle obviated)
- (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
- (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
- 1826, Richard Reece, A Practical Dissertation on the Means of Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness, page 181 ↗:
- A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
- 2004, David J. Anderson, Agile Management for Software Engineering, page 180 ↗:
- Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.
- 2008, William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: In Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology, page 163 ↗:
- Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient′s problems.
- 2019, Gary Younge, Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not, in the Guardian.
- A government that thinks it can take on the world with Brexit can’t take back a bereaved teenaged mother with fundamentalist delusions. Moreover, the risk does not obviate two crucial facts in this case. First and foremost, she is a citizen ... Second, when Begum went to Syria she was a child.
- 1826, Richard Reece, A Practical Dissertation on the Means of Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness, page 181 ↗:
- French: rendre superflu, éviter
- German: überflüssig machen
- Italian: ovviare
- Portuguese: obviar
- Russian: избега́ть
- Spanish: obviar
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