Obviate
['ɒbvɪeɪt] or ['ɑbvɪet]
Definition
(v. t.) To meet in the way.
(v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Preclude, prevent, turn aside, remove in the outset, provide against.
Inputed by Franklin
Definition
v.t. to meet on the way hence to remove as difficulties.
Typed by Julie
Examples
- That will obviate all difficulties you know; and from _us_ I really think, my dear Jane, you can have no scruple to accept such an accommodation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There is one fault in the periscope not easy to obviate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To obviate the bad results of punctures he proposed also to make his tire in sectional compartments, so that if one compartment was punctured the others would still hold good. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Soon we returned to shore, and I endeavoured to obviate the impression made on the child's mind, by treating Raymond's fears lightly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He attempted to obviate this by plastering himself from head to foot with mud, but this dried and fell off. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This arrangement tends to obviate any misleading deflections that might arise through changes in the battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This obviates the expense and risk of transmitting money. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a short time it was obviated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Adrian, who was delighted with Clara's proposal, obviated these objections. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Chronometers were invented, distinguished from watches and clocks, by means by which the fluctuation of the parts caused by the variations in temperature are obviated or compensated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I obviated this by using several relays, each with a different adjustment, working several sounders all connected with one sounding-plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Nadine