Verb:

தடுத்துதவு,

averts's Usage Examples:

Jung's theory holds that human beings are either introverts or extraverts, and their behavior follows from these inborn psychological types.

She swerves off the road and narrowly averts collisions.

Letter One: E or I: Extraverts focus more on people and things, introverts on ideas.

The gesture described was probably the same as that with which a Christian priest averts demonic influences from the heads of his congregation in the act of blessing them.

Synonyms:

stave off, forbid, forefend, forfend, deflect, debar, head off, obviate, forestall, fend off, ward off, avoid, prevent, foreclose, preclude,

Antonyms:

refrain, consume, validate, confront, let,