different between obviate vs militate

English

Etymology

From Latin obvi?re (“to block, to hinder”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bvi?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bvi?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ob?vi?ate

Verb

obviate (third-person singular simple present obviates, present participle obviating, simple past and past participle obviated)

1. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
2. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
   • 1826, Richard Reece, A Practical Dissertation on the Means of Obviating & Treating the Varieties of Costiveness, page 181:

     A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.

   • 2004, David J. Anderson, Agile Management for Software Engineering, page 180:

     Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.

   • 2008, William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: In Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology, page 163:

     Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient?s problems.

   • 2019, Gary Younge, Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not, in the Guardian.[1]

     A government that thinks it can take on the world with Brexit can’t take back a bereaved teenaged mother with fundamentalist delusions. Moreover, the risk does not obviate two crucial facts in this case. First and foremost, she is a citizen ... Second, when Begum went to Syria she was a child.

Usage notes

• Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) notes that phrases like obviate the necessity or obviate the need are sometimes considered redundant, but "these phrases are not redundancies, for the true sense of obviate the necessity is 'to prevent the necessity (from arising),' hence to make unnecessary."

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ob.u?i?a?.te/, [?bu?i?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.vi?a.te/, [?bvi???t??]

Verb

obvi?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of obvi?

English

Etymology

From Latin m?lit?tus, from m?lit?. Originally meant "to be a soldier; to fight".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?te?t/

Verb

militate (third-person singular simple present militates, present participle militating, simple past and past participle militated)

1. To give force or effect toward; to influence.

   to militate in favor of a particular result

   to militate against the possibility of his election
2. (obsolete) To fight.

Translations

Anagrams

• limitate

Esperanto

Adverb

militate

1. present adverbial passive participle of militi

Italian

Verb

militate

1. second-person plural present indicative of militare
2. second-person plural imperative of militare
3. feminine plural of militato

Anagrams

• limitate
• metilati

Latin

Participle

m?lit?te

1. vocative masculine singular of m?lit?tus