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deflect

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Verb (usu participle)
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de=flect

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb deflect has 5 senses

OXFORD DICTIONARY

deflect, v.
1 tr. & intr. bend or turn aside from a straight course or intended purpose.
2 (often foll. by from) a tr. cause to deviate. b intr. deviate.

Etymology
L deflectere (as DE-, flectere flex- bend)

THESAURUS

deflect

angle, angle off, anticipate, arch, avert, bar, bear off, bend, bend back, bias, blunt, bow, change, chill, cool, crook, curl, curve, damp, dampen, debar, decurve, deter, deviate, diffract, diffuse, disaffect, discourage, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, disperse, distort, distract, divagate, diverge, divert, dogleg, dome, embow, estop, exclude, fend, fend off, flex, forbid, foreclose, forestall, hairpin, help, hold off, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, indispose, inflect, keep from, keep off, loop, oblique, obviate, parry, pivot, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pull, put off, quench, recurve, reflect, reflex, refract, repel, retroflex, round, rule out, sag, save, scatter, sheer, shy, sidetrack, skew, slue, stave off, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, switch, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, twist, vault, veer, volte-face, ward off, warp, wean from, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

deflect

Curvature

VB be curved curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag, deviate, curl, turn, reenter, render curved, flex, bend, curve, incurvate, inflect, deflect, scatter, refract (light), crook, turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate, bow, curl, recurve, frizzle, rotundity, convexity.

Deviation

VB alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend, bend, curve, swerve, heel, bear off, gybe, wear, intervert, deflect, divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp, stray, straggle, sidle, diverge, tralineate, digress, wander, wind, twist, meander, veer, tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of, ramble, rove, drift, go astray, go adrift, yaw, dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for, shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about, waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way.

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