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divert

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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Plain form
divert

Third-person singular
diverts

Past tense
diverted

Past participle
diverted

Present participle
diverting

  1. (transitive & intransitive) If you divert something, you change its path or flow so that it avoids a place it would have gone.
    The news release about the new funding was an attempt to divert attention from the government's problems.
    Money and resources were diverted from education into the war effort.
    The farmers were diverting water from the river.
    The Toronto-bound flight diverted to New York.
  2. (transitive) If you try to divert someone, you try to amuse them.
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