deflect

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEFLECT, verb intransitive [Latin To turn or bend.] To turn from or aside; to deviate from a true course or right line; to swerve. The needle deflects from the meridian. DEFLECT, verb transitive To turn aside; to turn or bend from a right line or regular course.
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