Verb (used with object), : to obviate the risk of serious injury.    From Dictionary.com. 

American in scope, and are experimenting toward obviating them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference

The role of government becomes crucial in obviating this danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEW PATRIOTISM MUST CUT ACROSS CLASS AND COLOUR] Reference

Texting: see above, head shots obviating the need for court action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Jones: A Modest Proposal] Reference

The plant was formerly much extolled for obviating stone in the bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

In my description of my apparatus, I give the means of obviating that evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference

Flemish bond, obviating as it does the use of bats in the interior of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

One side of both shell and core are split for the purpose of obviating residual magnetism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

Some systems accept sullage water as well as excrete, thus obviating the need to invest further in sullage removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Some systems accept sullage water as well as excreta, thus obviating the need to invest further in sullage removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

It is with the view of obviating these defects that the modifications represented in Figs. 2 to 6 have been devised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

The automatic transmission shifts all by itself, obviating the need to manipulate a gear-change lever and clutch pedal.    From Wordnik.com.  [World exclusive: Chevrolet Volt first drive] Reference

The essential oil is medicinally useful for correcting female irregularities, as well as for obviating cold indigestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Cavalry attacks have been made with success after dark, and the advantage, of course, is gained of obviating opposing fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

The tubes will be found very convenient, obviating entirely the suffocating fumes diffused in the act of measuring bromine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference

Since Obama cut taxes, you'd think they'd be predicting a flood of government income -- obviating the need for any tax hikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big VAT Lie] Reference

These ETFs were somehow approved by the Commission, despite seemingly obviating the margin rules set forth by the Federal Reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harleen Kahlon: Cramer & Colleagues Put Heat on SEC to Bring Back Uptick Rule] Reference

Greeks, from understanding your correspondent "T.S.D." p. 367, to say that "the mode of obviating it would suggest itself at once.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850] Reference

We have to ensure that all these interests are adequately taken care of, while obviating the problem of multiplicity of institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [NOTES FOR NELSON MANDELA'S CLOSING ADDRESS PRESIDENT'S BUDGET DEBATE] Reference

Source components are connected to the box, and audio and video signals are beamed wirelessly to the TV, obviating the need for cables.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEDIA 2009: LCD TVs get thinner, add wireless, new streaming services] Reference

If our scientists can discover some method of obviating these objections, it will then be time enough to talk about retaining the germ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

Socialism promises, according to its adherents, to accomplish all the good results of government regulation, while obviating its defects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Schwaub, "for your private letter, which affords me the means of obviating any calumny against the memory of a person who will always be dear to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

They save millions by keeping fires smaller, obviating the need for additional firefighters — and in keeping forests and homes from going up in flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air War on Forest Fires] Reference

Another patent (Eng.Pat. 16,382, 1897), has for its object the obviating of the injurious effects upon wool, of alkali liberated from a solution of soap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

Government that this beef should be cured and salted so as to be of use to the army and navy, obviating the necessity of shipping salt-beef around Cape Horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Paradoxically, by guaranteeing the solvency of its members, the run on Greece's debt would stop, thereby obviating the need for the guarantee in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato's Bankrupt Republic] Reference

With this new technique, the diaphragm is actually contracting and expanding, thus obviating the need for a ventilator, and that's what we're hearing about, Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2003] Reference

They recruit foreign Africans from territories in southern and central Africa, thereby obviating labour scarcities from which the home-born African would benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 26] Reference

They are manufactured from earthenware or porcelain, and are so shaped that they contain a water seal, obviating the necessity of a separate trap under the closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference

So also in the New Empire the packing and modelling of the actual mummy so as to restore its life-like appearance were regarded as obviating the need for a statue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

With a quick motion he shoved over the spark lever and the motor started, for a charge had remained in one of the cylinders, obviating the necessity of cranking up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls] Reference

Methods of obviating both classes of risk by means of special receipts have frequently been suggested, but such receipts do not appear to have come into general use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Large heads like buffalo, moose, and elk may be poisoned as they hang, thus obviating any subsequent handling which would be to the detriment of both specimen and operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference

Instead, as they went down the steps and set off around the house, she kept the scarf in her hands, idly playing with the long band, thus obviating him offering her his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan, obviating the need to deal with Russia, it would also cost less than half of what a pipeline through Russia would cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2002] Reference