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Type Words
Synonyms depart, diverge, vary
Type of differ
Has types aberrate, belie, contradict, negate
Derivation deviant, deviation
Type Words
Synonyms aberrant, deviant
Derivation deviance
Type Words
Synonyms divert
Type of turn
Has types detour, digress, sidetrack, straggle, yaw, depart
Derivation deviation
Type Words
Synonyms degenerate, deviant, pervert
Type of miscreant, reprobate
Has types fetishist, lech, lecher, letch, masochist, nympho, nymphomaniac, paederast, paedophile, pederast, pedophile, sadist, sadomasochist, satyr, sod, sodomist, sodomite, bugger, child molester
Type Words
Type of divert
Has types perturb, shunt
Derivation deviation


The river was deviated to prevent flooding.

Examples of deviate

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Still better than Obama, however, who refuses to deviate from liberal orthodoxy.
From the washingtonpost.com
On Main Street, he will deviate from his current restaurant in a couple of ways.
From the thestate.com
None of the new information would lead me to deviate greatly from that forecast.
From the fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
Digital maps and GPS devices are likely to deviate by more than 5 m as a result.
From the time.com
Unfortunately, a personal matter has forced me to deviate from this assignment.
From the time.com
Decide where you want to hit it and do not, at all costs, deviate from that plan.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
The best bill will be the one that doesn't deviate too far from that agreement.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Ishii is not bound by the plea agreement, though judges rarely deviate from them.
From the fresnobee.com
Everything was going smoothly until he decided to deviate from the prepared text.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Aberrant: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"
  • Pervert: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
  • Turn aside; turn away from
  • Be at variance with; be out of line with
  • Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"
  • (deviation) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean"
  • Deviate is a 1998 album from British Heavy metal band Kill II This.
  • (Deviation (album)) Deviation is an album by Jayne County, which was recorded at Abraham Moss Studio (The Cutting Rooms) in Manchester, England in the winter of 1994.
  • (Deviation (law)) The doctrine of deviation, as it pertains to legal contracts, is a departure from a planned contractual course or design. When a plan has been adopted for a building, and in the progress of the work a change is made from the original plan, the change is called a deviation. ...