stave off, forestall, avoid, prevent, defuse, thwart, mitigate, quell, minimize, stem, safeguard, alleviate, stanch, curb, ameliorate, precipitate, lessen, provoke, resolve, counteract, save, instigate, prolong, revive, protect, unblock, curtail, reduce, impends, undo, allay, tamp down, hasten, halt, cripple, protract, sidestep, preempt, remedy, stabilize, obviate, scupper, scuttle, gird, restore, salvage, insulate, quash, douse, cope, rectify, neutralize, prompt, derail, fearing, solve, deepen, spur, trigger, prod, presaging, stymie, pacify, aggravate, deter, paralyze, quench, palliate, looming, soothe, heighten, mediate, eliminate, eradicate, squelch, wreak, befall, assuage, imperil, extricate, overcome, engulf, unsnarl, stave, inoculate, warn, inflict, fix, stoke, restrain, relieve, withstand, destabilize, deflect, recover, escape, foreshadow, persuade, resurrect, preserve, foment, impose, abductor, absentees, accolade, advance, antecedent, antecedents, anybody, anyone, beforehand, bruit, callers, cf, collaborator, connexion, contention, continuations, cradles, de, dependencies, despatch, averted, dreaded, fearful, frightful, imminent, immitigable, impending, terrible, threatened, woful, already, apprehended, approaching, averting, avoidable, direful, dreadful, fantasied, menaced, portended

deprecation, look away, ward off

forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, turn

avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, head off, obviate, stave off, turn away, ward off