Obviate Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Obviate

block
(Sports) To block an opponent
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intervene
(Intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
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forfend
(Dated) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
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avert
To keep from happening; ward off; prevent
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forestall
To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand:
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prevent
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ward
To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
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stave off
(Idiomatic) to prevent something from happening; to obviate or avert
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debar
To exclude or shut out; bar.
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deflect
To make (something) deviate from its original path.
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fend-off
To ward off; to drive (something) away; to turn away; to defend against; to repel with force or effort.
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avoid
To refrain from (doing something):
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ward off
To parry, or turn aside.
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rid-of
do away with
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eliminate
To get rid of; remove:
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preclude
Preclude is defined as to prevent something from happening or to prevent someone from doing something.
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dodge
To move or twist quickly aside; shift suddenly, as to avoid a blow
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interfere
To interfere is defined as to create an obstacle or get involved in other peoples' business.
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Antonyms for Obviate

permit
To give opportunity or possibility
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help
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
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necessitate
To require something to be brought about.
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Words Related to Obviate

allow
To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
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negate
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hinder
To hinder is defined as to restrain or hold something back.
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restrain
To hold back or keep in check; control:
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Obviate Sentence Examples

  • Climatic conditions obviate the necessity of any superfluity of clothing.

  • To obviate this catastrophe the British reformers set to work most energetically.

  • To obviate this defect, it has been recommended that ornamental plants should be formed into four or five separate suites of flowering, to be distributed over the garden.

  • To obviate the inconvenience of placing the telephone to the mouth and the ear alternately, two telephones were commonly used at each end, joined either parallel to each other or in series.

  • But this did not obviate the necessity for house - to-house inspection, and although the number of different points at which leakage occurred was still great, it was always small in relation to the number of houses which were necessarily entered by the inspector; moreover, when the best had been done that possibly could be done to suppress leakage due to domestic fittings, the leakage below ground in the mains, ferrules and service pipes still remained, and was often very great.

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