How to pronounce“averse”in English
nounPlus, there's just an an assumption, I think, that's widely believed by many even before Trump into came into office, that the United States is casualty
averse, that it's cost averse. And certainly Trump has has not been shy about his preference that military campaigns be quick, decisive, and not
very costly. So, I think this is aimed primarily at the United States, at American voters, and at Trump himself.
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Definitions of “averse”
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
“The board is not averse to further talks.”
Turned away or backward.
“The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.”
To turn away.
“[…] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.”
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