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Another word for deflect

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Verb

  1. To cause to move, especially at an angle

    See also:

    straight

  2. To change the direction or course of

    See also:

    change

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Another word for deflect

Verb
  1. See also:

    veer

    turn

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Sentence Examples

  • Prisms deflect rays of light towards their bases.

  • The rain began, light at first, and he adjusted his helmet to deflect the droplets from blowing in his face.

  • "You need more of an angle when you deflect," he told her.

  • The verniers having been read, the cross-arm is rotated so as to deflect the needle a in the opposite direction, and a new setting is taken.

  • In the position shown in solid lines, these valves deflect the air and gas into the left-hand pair of "regenerators" or spacious heat-transferring chambers.

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