obviate

Speech parts

1. obviate - Noun

2. obviate - Adjective

3. obviate - Verb

Meaning

To meet in the way.

To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

avoid eliminate deflect ward off avert debar fend off stave off forfend forefend head off parry ward prevent intercept

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Antonyms

necessitate support back take help need

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Hypernyms

prevent forbid preclude forestall foreclose

Hyponyms

preclude rule out close out

Phrases with the word

in order to obviate

Derivatives

obviated obviating

Examples

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must set out to please, so as to be preferred to him. If you don't have one, you must still please so as to obviate the possibility of having one. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?" "Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father. Anne Brontë

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature. M. H. Abrams

Let's avoid a confrontation Source: Internet

head off a confrontation Source: Internet

avert a strike Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

obvert obvi obviable obviating obviation obviative