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Deflect

verb

(past & past part. deflected; pres. part. deflecting)

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening. Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off. "Head off a confrontation" , "Avert a strike"

Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest. Synonyms: bend, turn away.

Turn aside and away from an initial or intended course.

Draw someone's attention away from something. Synonym: distract. "He deflected his competitors"

Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball). Synonyms: block, parry.

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"Deflect" Quotes from Famous Books

... be relieved merely by goodwill on either side. When you begin to deflect the course of trade, you deflect it in all directions and for all time in both countries which are parties to the bargain. Your industries in your respective Colonies would have exposed themselves to a more severe competition from British goods in their markets, and would have ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... Aunt Jane tremulously. "In the sand—why, I am sure that is such a helpful thought! It shows quite plainly that the chest is not buried in—in a rock, you know." She gave the effect of a person trying to deflect a thunderstorm with a ...

— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

... that the latter might have been expected to yield and become curved as soon as the apex encountered an unyielding object; whereas it was the stiff growing part which became curved. Moreover, an object which yields with the greatest ease will deflect a radicle: thus, as we have seen, when the apex of the radicle of the bean encountered the polished surface of extremely thin tin-foil laid on soft sand, no impression was left on it, yet the radicle became deflected at right angles. A second explanation occurred to us, ...

— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin

... nothing can scratch them, and of course Roeser's Rays go right through our bodies, or any ordinary substance, like a bullet through a hole in a Swiss cheese. Even those lenses wouldn't deflect them if they ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

... Penrod's great-uncle Slocum. This elderly relative had come to call upon Mrs. Schofield, and he was well upon his way to the front door when the mutterings of war among some shrubberies near the fence caused him to deflect his ...

— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

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