Related Clues:

• Manage to avoid
• Forfend
• Deflect
• Stopper, informally
• Prevent from happening
• Dodge successfully
• Fend off
• Prevent a disaster
• Avert
• Again and again
• Shield from
• Nip in the bud
• Not let happen
• Put the -- on (squelch)
• Turn away, as a crisis