We replaced the old mechanisms because we wanted to obviate any nervousness about potential breakdown.

I tried to obviate my mother’s awkwardness with the cell phone by telling her it wasn’t necessary to hold it up to her mouth when she speaks into it.

Because he wanted to obviate the strain of climbing the stairs, Dr. Johnson ordered the patient to have his bedroom furniture moved to the room on the bottom floor.

Even though the government has employed many safeguards to obviate abuse of the welfare system, there are still too many people robbing the taxpayers through fraudulent claims.

Nowadays, parents are able to obviate the stresses of a long road trip with children by entertaining them with all sorts of technological gadgets.

In the mind of a packrat, hoarding is simply a logical way to obviate the problem of not having something when you need it.

After his mother had fallen in the bathtub, Farley installed safety rails in order to obviate any recurrence of such a mishap.

Because our mother was always inclined to obviate conflict under any circumstances, we all got our own gifts on our siblings’ birthdays.

If you want to obviate the risk of skin cancer throughout your life, it’s important that you are protected from sun exposure from the time you are an infant.

While we understood that Garth wanted to obviate all possibilities of landing in a sand trap, we were annoyed that he was taking so long to hit the ball.