Obviate: alternatives and connections

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averte…

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To empty.

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To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…

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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

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To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

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