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verbturn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interesttype of:
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"He deflected his competitors"verbdraw someone's attention away from something
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verbprevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
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verbimpede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)type of:
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verbturn aside and away from an initial or intended coursetype of:
Definition that contains deflect
- block the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- blocking the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- bending the property of being bent or deflected
- parry (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
- swerve an erratic deflection from an intended course
- scattering the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
- deflection the property of being bent or deflected
- spectrometer spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer
- crt a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen
- yaw an erratic deflection from an intended course