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What is another word for Averter?

Pronunciation: [ɐvˈɜːtə] (IPA)

Averter is a word that is used to describe an action or person that prevents something from happening or turning away from it. There are several synonyms that can be used in place of averter. Some of these synonyms include preventer, hinderer, stopper, obstructor, and impeder. The word preventer implies that something is stopped from happening before it occurs, while hinderer suggests that something is slowed down or hindered from happening. The word stopper implies that something is completely prevented from happening. Obstructor and impeder imply that something is blocked or hindered from happening. Overall, these synonyms provide different shades of meaning to the word averter and can be used interchangeably depending on the context of the sentence.
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The good Bhagat is called Nimbu-katna or lemon-cutter, a lemon speared on a knife being a powerful Averter of evil spirits.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
And he immediately sang a passage of Euripides, how a brother, O Averter of ill!
"The Clouds"
Aristophanes
Then, heavily sighing, swift-footed Achilles addressed her: May I die then immediately, since it was not destined that I should aid my companion now slain; but he indeed hath perished far away from his native land, and longed for me to be an Averter of his doom.
"The Iliad of Homer (1873)"
Homer

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