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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

... Brierly. "In view of the fact that you have not yet made provision to deflect the rock it seems rather dangerous to leave things in this state. If the rock came down it would hit the roof of the porch and kill whoever happened to be there. You say you have installed the photo-electric ...

— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew

... Fe{2}S{3}, and is a sulphide of iron, is responsive both positively and negatively. Bismuth and antimony also are inactive, whilst almost all minerals containing even a small percentage of iron will deflect the magnetic needle, at least under the influence of heat. So that from the lodestone—the most powerfully magnetic mineral known—to those minerals possessing no magnetic action whatever, we have a long, graduated scale, in which many of the precious stones appear, ...

— The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones • John Mastin

... not 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 ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... and nine times out of ten would have got by, but just as it had almost reached Melvin's outstretched hands, Barton, the opposing left tackle, touched it with the tips of his fingers, just enough to deflect it from its course. Ensley grabbed it, and it was Lake ...

— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport

... most of the guns at that time to be found upon the rivers, provided they could fight bows on. Though repeatedly struck, the flag-ship as often as thirty-one times, the armor proved sufficient to deflect or resist the impact of the projectiles. The disaster, however, that befell the Essex made fearfully apparent a class of accidents to which they were exposed, and from which more than one boat, on either side, on the Western waters subsequently suffered. The fleet lost two killed ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

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