obviate

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Verb — To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.

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Etymology

First attested in 1567; borrowed from Latin obviātus, perfect passive participle of obviō (“to block, to hinder”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).