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obviate

/ob-vee-eyt/US // ˈɒb viˌeɪt //UK // (ˈɒbvɪˌeɪt) //

免除,减轻,缓和,缓解

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ob·vi·at·ed, ob·vi·at·ing.

    • : to anticipate and prevent or eliminate by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.

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Examples

  • This obviates the need for separate tools like LUKS, VeraCrypt, or BitLocker.

  • According to Kenealy, this concept is ideal for college dorms, taking less time than traditional delivery and obviating the need for a stranger to show up at students’ rooms.

  • But that does not obviate the U.S. from its statutory obligation to cancel its $1.3 billion aid to the Egyptian military.

  • Mofaz in the government doesn'€™t obviate the enormous technical obstacles to an Israeli strike.

  • This is most obvious when expensive forms of trash are forced to backflip until they obviate their standard uses.

  • But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.

  • To obviate the necessity for 'legs,' a simple and efficient substitute is shown in the transverse section.

  • It is possible he may have the offer of an appointment in England, which would obviate the necessity of our returning to India.

  • Human beings have little occasion to fear mineral starvation, and may obviate whatever danger there may be with a drink of milk.

  • Still, if rain came now, he might save enough to obviate the necessity of using Helen's money.