obviate
Verb
- do away with
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- necessitate
- ask
- postulate
- need
- require
- take
- involve
- call for
- demand
- More specific
- preclude
- rule out
- close out
- Related
- obviation
- forestalling
- preclusion
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; “Let’s avoid a confrontation”; “head off a confrontation”; “avert a strike”
- Synonyms
- debar
- forefend
- forfend
- deflect
- avert
- head off
- stave off
- fend off
- avoid
- ward off
- Less specific
- prevent
- forestall
- foreclose
- preclude
- forbid
- Related
- evitable
- avoidable
- avertible
- avertable
- evitable
- avoidable
- avertible
- avertable
- evitable
- avoidable
- avertible
- avertable
- obviation
- forestalling
- preclusion