divertverb [ T ]
uk/daɪˈvɜːt/us/dɪˈvɝːt/divert verb [ T ] (CHANGE DIRECTION)
C2 to cause something or someone to change direction:
Traffic will be diverted through the side streets while the main road is resurfaced.
Our flight had to be diverted to Newark because of the storm.
to use something for a different purpose:
Should more funds/money/resources be diverted from roads into railways?
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Changing direction
- about-turn
- bear
- branch off
- branch off sth
- decoy
- deflect
- deflection
- diversion
- glance
- glance off (sth)
- head
- head sb/sth off
- oscillate
- peaked
- sheer
- slew 1
- turn
- U-turn
- veer
- yo-yo
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Using and misusing
divert verb [ T ] (TAKE ATTENTION AWAY)
C1 to take someone's attention away from something:
The war has diverted attention (away) from the country's economic problems.
formal to entertain someone:
It's a great game for diverting restless kids on long car rides .
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Celebrating & entertaining
- a good time was had by all idiom
- amuse
- amused
- bacchanalian
- banquet
- entertaining
- go to town idiom
- have a whale of a time idiom
- host
- kill
- kill the fatted calf idiom
- let your hair down idiom
- perform
- push
- revelry
- scintillate
- see in the New Year idiom
- spirit
- take sb out of himself/herself
- town
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Creating a distraction