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obviate 音标拼音: ['ɑbvi ,et] vt. 除去,排除,回避,预防,避免 除去,排除,回避,预防,避免 obviate v 1: do away with [ synonym: { obviate}, { rid of}, { eliminate}] [ ant: { ask}, { call for}, { demand}, { involve}, { necessitate}, { need}, { postulate}, { require}, { take}] 2: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; " Let' s avoid a confrontation"; " head off a confrontation"; " avert a strike" [ synonym: { debar}, { forefend}, { forfend}, { obviate}, { deflect}, { avert}, { head off}, { stave off}, { fend off}, { avoid}, { ward off}] Obviate \ Ob" vi* ate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Obviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Obviating}.] [ L. obviare; ob ( see { Ob-}) viare to go, fr. via way. See { Voyage}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To meet in the way. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. [ 1913 Webster] To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " obviate": anticipate, avert, bar, debar, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, estop, exclude, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, help, interfere, interpose, intervene, keep from, keep off, preclude, prevent, prohibit, repel, rule out, save, stave off, turn aside, ward, ward off
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