Averted
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- prevent and averted
- prevent and balked
- frustrate and averted
- frustrate and balked
- restrained and averted
- restrained and balked
- restricted and averted
- restricted and balked
- discouraged and averted
- discouraged and balked
- frustrated and averted
- frustrated and balked
- baffled and averted
- baffled and balked
Both words in one sentence
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Notably averted in the non-technical aspects; one of the specific reasons why this infuriated the French Public was because it inaccurately portrayed the World War One French military doing things even the World War II Soviet penal units would have balked at.
Source: Film / Paths of Glory
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