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OBVIATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does obviating mean?
• OBVIATING (adjective)
The adjective OBVIATING has 1 sense:
1. made impossible
Familiarity information: OBVIATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made impossible
Synonyms:
obviating; preclusive
Similar:
preventative; preventive (tending to prevent or hinder)
Context examples
Though with your usual anxiety for our happiness, said Elinor, you have been obviating every impediment to the present scheme which occurred to you, there is still one objection which, in my opinion, cannot be so easily removed.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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