obviar

Borrowed from Latin obviāre.

obviar (first-person singular present obvio, first-person singular preterite obviei, past participle obviado)

1. (transitive) to obviate (to avoid a future problem)

From Latin obviāre.

• IPA^(key): /oˈbjaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ob‧viar

obviar (first-person singular present obvio, first-person singular preterite obvié, past participle obviado)

1. to avoid; to get round; to get out of

   Synonyms: eludir, evitar

   obviar su mirada ― dodge his gaze

2. to obviate
3. to ignore; to flout

   obviar la norma ― to ignore the rule

   obviar la regla ― to ignore the rule

   obviar su frontera ― to ignore the boundary

   obviar sus crímenes ― to ignore their crimes

   • 2017 April 2, “Las dictaduras según Borges”, in El Nacional‎:

     Se ha instalado en el proceder de radicales puristas y escrupulosos que, señalando yerros de la MUD y obviando sus aciertos, promueven frentes y movimientos de signo negativo para restar y dividir, en sintonía con lo que buscan los hegemones, a fin de que sus partidarios sigan siendo «botones que balbucean imperativos» y, gritando sus «vivas y mueras prefijados», continúen, disciplinadamente, «usurpando el lugar de la lucidez».

     It has settled in the behavior of purist and scrupulous radicals who, pointing out the MUD's mistakes and ignoring its successes, promote negative fronts and movements to subtract and divide, in line with what the hegemons seek, so that their supporters continue to be «buttons that babble imperatives» and, shouting their «prefixed live and dies», continue, disciplined, «usurping the place of lucidity».

• “obviar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10