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divert
/daɪˈvɝt/
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What does divert mean?
verb
- To turn aside from a course.
- To distract.
- To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
More meanings (1)
verb
- (obsolete) To turn aside; to digress.
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IPA pronunciation
/daɪˈvɝt/
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It became now, however, desirable to divert Ardan from questions of a practical nature, with which he was doubtless far less conversant.
But he had not anticipated that the tendency of his action would be to divert Wildeve’s movement rather than to stop it.
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It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave trade is contemplated.
Said Pyrrhus, smiling, "we will live at our ease, my dear friend, and drink all day, and divert ourselves with pleasant conversation."
My present object is to consider the jury as a political institution, and any other course would divert me from my subject.