Dictionary Entry
obviate
obviate is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To meet in the way. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To meet in the way.
- 2transitive verb
To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
- 3verb
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
"Let's avoid a confrontation"
"head off a confrontation"
- 4verb
do away with
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