PROP., avertere: amovere: one’s eyes from anybody, oculos dejicere ab aliquo (not avertere oculos, but oculos ab aliquo in alium avertere is correct): a blow [Vid: PARRY]: one’s thoughts from a subject, cogitationes avertere ab aliqua re, and ab aliquo. ImPROP., to avert an evil, aniovere, dejicere (to remove it): depellere (to drive off an approaching evil): repellere (to drive back one that has approached): propulsare: defendere (to ward it off): deprecari (to avert it by prayers): averruncare (of the gods). To avert a calamity by prayers, deprecari a se calamitatem: a war, amovere bellum; difendere bellum.