Avert is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 75 anagrams from letters in avert (aertv).
1400-50; late Middle English Middle French avertir ≪ Latin āvertere, equivalent to ā- a-4 + vertere to turn
Sometimes, even before shots are fired, Interrupters can predict and avert crisis, according to Slutkin.
She did not avert her gaze immediately, nor did he avert his.
First, will Ted Cruz and/or Mike Lee let the deal move through the Senate quickly enough to avert default?
If they tremble down the fine-skinned cheek, let us avert our gaze.
But over the next two months, watch them avoid making tough debt choices to avert another shutdown, says Peter Beinart.
And they believe in tougher sanctions precisely because they want to avert war.
Help by Thine outstretched arm, and avert our sorrow from us.
The most it can do for us is to persuade us to avert our gaze and fix it on other objects.
I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail.
President Obama said Libya had to be attacked to avert a genocide in Benghazi.