obviate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: obviate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obviate v do away with Synonym(s): obviate, rid of, eliminate [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take] prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" Synonym(s): debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obviate \Ob"viate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Obviating}.] [L. obviare; ob (see {Ob-}) + viare to go, fr. via way. See {Voyage}.] 1. To meet in the way. [Obs.] Not to stir a step to obviate* any of a different religion. --Fuller. 2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. --Woodward.