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deflect English

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deflect Verb

— If you deflect something, you hit it to change its direction. I was able to deflect the ball coming at me.

deflect

— verb turn aside and away from an initial or intended course — verb turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest — verb (= distract) draw someone's attention away from something The thief distracted the bystanders He deflected his competitors — verb (= block) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) block an attack — verb (= avert, head off, avoid) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening Let's avoid a confrontation head off a confrontation avert a strike

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deflect English » English

divert swerve turn away diverge deviate bend avert turn block ward off veer forfend forefend turn aside stave off sidetrack parry obviate head off fend off distract digress debar yaw warp wander stray shunt shift diviate depart bounce avoid aberrate wheel around wheel wave vary turn towards turn off turn in turn down turn back turn around translate trammel thwart swivel swing around swing about

Conjugation deflect conjugation

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deflect · verb

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Simple sentences

A lot of people deflect praise that comes their way, because they don't know how to handle it.

Movie subtitles

It could be, by him to deflect suspicion.
It's supposed to deflect mines.
I hope, however, this will not deflect you. from the revenge you were going to take on Crassus.
Without bernalium, the Wheel will not deflect the meteorites.
We can forestall fate, deflect the menace.
The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment.
But there is a danger that Earth will deflect from its orbit towards the Sun. or away from the Sun.
The spinning top is the key to learning how to deflect force.
If we set up thermal-deflector units along the northern perimeter, we could create a firewall to deflect the heat.
Even a button will deflect a.22, so it could get screwed up somewhere along the way and miss the target.
We can deflect the beam.
Chief. Dax feels we can't risk using tractor beams to deflect the comet.
Now that the comet's been fractured into smaller pieces can we use the tractor beams to deflect them?
Logic would dictate that if I strike the cue ball properly, it will deflect first off the rear bumper, then the side, striking the 11 ball and causing it to roll directly into the corner pocket.
It's not just failing to deflect it away from Earth.
Once there, you could deflect all of the virus from Earth's orbit into the void of outer space.
You can make it fall in a straight line, reflect or deflect it, gather it in or spread it out, make it round as a bubble, make it shine or block it out.
Probably to deflect rays from Alpha Centauri away from him into them.
You used me to steal the antidote. then used the poisoned antidote to kill Hua. so you could use the treasure chest as evidence to close the case. and deflect suspicion from yourself.
They weren't designed to deflect heat-seeking missiles.
What better way to deflect suspicion?
You can divert the ray through optic fiber. use a mirror to deflect it but about the easiest thing to do is just, uh. avoid it.
He's tryin' to deflect the investigation.
So they created this elaborate show just to deflect us again.
To deflect attention onto Monsieur de Saint-Fiacre and keep him from inheriting.
It passes near a major planet, like Saturn. The planet provides a small gravitational tug enough to deflect it into a much smaller orbit.
And an extremely strong magnetic field is used to deflect the charged atoms into the scoop and away from the spacecraft.
There are a hundred factors that could deflect it from this sector. a gravimetric shift, a solar flare.
Let's deflect his suspicions!
What measures have you taken to deflect further attacks?
The interception of Wolf-Biederman and the setting of the nuclear devices that will deflect it off its collision course with Earth.

News and current affairs

Politicians understandably want to deflect attention from their own misguided policies.
And savvy Bank presidents have known that the best way to deflect political pressure is to add yet more bells and whistles - especially when they are visible and loud.
One way to deflect the attention is to borrow the old anti-imperialist rhetoric of the left.
The government's initial intention was to deflect radical demands for an extreme version of Islamic governance.
Scientists have proposed various ways to deflect an asteroid away from the Earth.
This is doubtless an attempt to deflect attention from Fujimori's own crimes perpetuated from 1990 to 2000, before he fled to Japan.
Ironically, by turning the affair into a spy thriller, Putin has helped the US to salvage its reputation - or at least to deflect some of the attention from the NSA's surveillance programs.
Of course, Netanyahu is intentionally exaggerating the Iranian threat to deflect attention from Israel's real problems - especially its enduring conflict with Palestine.
They all manage to deflect criticism as on an oilskin made of a curious mixture of diffidence and dogmatism.

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