Divert
[daɪ'vɜːt;dɪ-] or [dɪˈvɚt]
Definition
(verb.) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one.
(verb.) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions.
Edited by Bessie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
(v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
(v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.
Editor: Rudolf
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Turn aside, draw away.[2]. Amuse, entertain, recreate, please, gratify, delight, exhilarate, refresh.
Edited by Fergus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Alter, change, deflect, alienate, delight, please, gratify, entertain, amuse
ANT:Continue, prosecute, prolong, produce, restrict, confine, pain, annoy
Typed by Enid
Definition
v.t. to turn aside: to change the direction of: to turn the mind from business or study: to amuse.—n. Divert′imento (obs.) diversion: (mus.) a ballet-interlude.—adj. Divert′ing.—adv. Divert′ingly.—n. Divert′isement diversion: a short ballet between the acts of a play.—adj. Divert′ive tending to divert.
Edited by Hamilton
Examples
- You divert me against my conscience. Jane Austen. Emma.
- When they ceased to divert me, I exerted my intelligence, and pulled them up again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All this sharp-shooting is done to divert our attention. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Divert yourselves, he said and grinned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Check it; divert it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I answer that he had no need to divert suspicion--because nobody suspected him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Are you not diverted? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I diverted them from that point to Washington, which place they reached, almost simultaneously with Wright, on the 11th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I left them at the bottom of the pit as long as they diverted me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Cruncher's attention was here diverted to the door-keeper, whom he saw making his way to Mr. Lorry, with the note in his hand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He declared himself entirely at her disposal: the adventure struck him as diverting. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Thus Mr. Roosevelt has always had a remarkable power of diverting the country from the tariff to the control of the trusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Had Sir Percival, by any chance, courted the suspicion that was wrong for the sake of diverting from himself some other suspicion that was right? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a diverting experience while it lasted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After this had lasted a while Clennam thought it a good season for diverting his attention from the main surprise, by relating its details. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- With the view of diverting the attention of the company, he turned to Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were so often diverting themselves in undertones, those three men whom God had mocked with the most tremendous opportunity in history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This diverts suspicion and confuses it; and for the same reason I recommended that, even if you came back last night, you should not go home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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