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- obviate something
to remove a problem or the need for something 消除；排除；打消 This new evidence obviates the need for any further enquiries. 这项新证据排除了继续调查的必要。 🔊🔊 Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute. 备用降落伞的启用消除了灾难。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryObviate is used with these nouns as the object:- necessity
- need
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin obviat- ‘prevented’, from the verb obviare, based on Latin via ‘way’.