Definition of Divert

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Divert

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.

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.

To turn aside; to digress.

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Divert Quotations

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
Benazir Bhutto

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
Brent Scowcroft

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher

Divert Translations

divert in Dutch is afleiden, verstrooien
divert in French is distraire
divert in German is ableiten, umleiten, umleiten
divert in Latin is avoco
divert in Norwegian is avlede, omdirigere, adspre
divert in Spanish is apartar, desviar

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