Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prevent; avert.
- To tip or turn forward; displace in a forward direction, as the uterus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To prevent.
- transitive verb (Med.) To displace by anteversion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
prevent . - verb medicine, obsolete To
displace byanteversion .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin antevertere; ante + vertere to turn.
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