averted
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈvɝtɪd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈvɜːtɪd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪd
Adjective
[edit]averted (comparative more averted, superlative most averted)
- Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling.
- 2021 June 22, Annelies Verheugt-Pleiter, Jolien Zevalkink, Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners, Routledge, →ISBN:
- It will not come as a surprise that Paul experiences much oppositional, averted anger, which is partly an adequate answer to the intrusions he has experienced and partly makes […]
- (also heraldry) Turned or directed away (from something).
- 1765, Daniel Fenning, Joseph Collyer, A New System of Geography, Or a General Description of the World, page 265:
- [...] : for Mompelgard, two barbels endorsed with tails averted, in a field gules : for Heydenheim, a Saracen's head, with a kind of hussar's cap gules […]
Derived terms
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[edit]Verb
[edit]averted
- simple past and past participle of avert