Word Meanings - DIVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that
Additional info about word: DIVERT
turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton. 2. To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith. Syn. -- To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See Amuse.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERT)
- Deflect
- Turn
- deviate
- diverge
- swerve
- divert
- recurve
- Divorce
- Separate
- disconnect
- dissever
- alienate
- Relax
- Slacken
- loosen
- remit
- abate
- mitigate
- release
- unbend
- relent
- recreate
- rest
- enervate
- Unstring
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVERT)
Related words: (words related to DIVERT)
- RELENT
1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, - DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - REMIT
1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison. - DISSEVER
To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info) - ABATER
One who, or that which, abates. - DISCONNECT
To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious - ABATE
1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - ALIENATE
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with - RECURVE
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down. - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - FETTERLESS
Free from fetters. Marston. - DIVERTING
Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n. - SHACKLE
1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine - UNSTRAINED
1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - SUPREMITY
Supremacy. Fuller. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - EREMITE
A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats. - HEREMITICAL
Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope. - INDIVERTIBLE
Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.