divert
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- (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.
- (transitive) If you try to divert someone, you try to amuse them.