See avert in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "détourner"
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "snúa frá"
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{
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "beina frá"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to turn aside",
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "líta undan"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "distogliere"
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"roman": "dollida",
"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "돌리다"
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"roman": "ódvrati",
"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "о́дврати"
},
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to turn aside",
"word": "kaupare"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to turn aside",
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"roman": "otvodítʹ",
"sense": "to turn aside",
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"sense": "to turn aside",
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"roman": "otblǎskvam",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "prévenir"
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "abwenden"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "verhindern"
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"roman": "apotrépo",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "koma í veg fyrir"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "evitare"
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"roman": "bangjihada",
"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "방지하다"
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"roman": "ódvrati",
"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "о́дврати"
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"roman": "ízbegne",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"roman": "oḻivākkuka",
"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "ഒഴിവാക്കുക"
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "അകറ്റുക"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "araarai"
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "parepare"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to ward off",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "pare"
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"roman": "otražátʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"word": "отража́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otrazítʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otbivátʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"word": "отбива́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otbítʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"perfective"
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"word": "отби́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "parírovatʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"perfective"
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"word": "пари́ровать"
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"code": "ru",
"english": "to prevent",
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"roman": "otvraščátʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
"tags": [
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"word": "отвраща́ть"
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"roman": "otvratítʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
"tags": [
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"word": "отврати́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predotvraščátʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "предотвраща́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predotvratítʹ",
"sense": "to ward off",
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"word": "предотврати́ть"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to ward off",
"word": "evitar"
}
],
"word": "avert"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.