To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something. The verb avert comes from Latin roots that mean "to turn away from." Averting has that sense of deflecting, turning away, or preventing something (usually bad) from happening.

What does averted mean mean?

1 : to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance I found the sight so grotesque that I had to avert my eyes …— John Gregory Dunne. 2 : to see coming and ward off : avoid avert disaster.

What does problem averted mean?

to prevent something bad from happening: to avert a crisis/conflict/strike/famine.