Synonym: amuse, confuse, delight, detract, distract, entertain, tickle. Similar words: diverse, diversity, biodiversity, dived, revert, advert, covert, subvert. Meaning: [daɪ'vɜːt] v. 1. turn aside; turn away from 2. send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one 3. occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion 4. withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions.
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31. If the charges for motorway use are too high, they will divert drivers to other roads.
32. He lined the shelter with rock and mud to keep out the cold and dug a ditch to divert the rain.
33. FoE has previously used the technique in an effort to divert the route of the M40 from two sites in Oxfordshire.
34. This scheme does not always divert costs away from the assisted litigant to the Legal Aid Fund - far from it.
35. Bring games in the car to divert the children during a long trip.
36. Mulholland would later tell the valley people that his objective was simply to divert their unused and return flows.
37. That's another way of saying that people have little to divert their attention in restrooms.
38. At subsequent meetings Britain attempted to divert the discussions towards its favoured position of a permanent committee of foreign ministers.
39. Gardens contrived to divert the power of botanical growth into the tame artifacts of domesticated crops.
40. All manner of villain tries to tempt him, divert him, or separate him from his small savings.
41. Whitacre would submit the invoices and divert the payments to businesses he established or controlled.
42. Forbes responded that this is an attempt by his rivals to divert attention from the issues.
43. She struggled, screamed and was cut a second time in the neck but managed to divert his attention and flee.
44. Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster?
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45. This strategy is explicitly intended to improve living standards sufficiently to divert popular protest.
46. Call waiting, call divert and call barring facilities will also be included in the package.
47. She included difficult filler items without pronouns to divert the subjects' attention from the anaphoric expressions.
48. Conversely, operations that divert bile away from the stomach will ameliorate dysplastic features induced by previous gastric surgery.
49. The flames were moving over 200 feet a minute, and all we could do was try to divert it.
50. This will divert forests from disputed uplands where foresters are frequently held up or defeated in long battles with environment groups.
51. For example: should he stick with Black or divert his attention to the woman?
52. This emphasis tends to divert scarce financial resources from true development objectives.
53. Rachel has started packing up to leave, and I try to divert her with more coffee.
54. Left: Waterfalls can chill your water in the winter, unless you divert the flow with a length of pipe.
55. It was easy to miss, especially with the village to divert one's attention.
56. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
57. Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power.
58. The magazines, strewn haphazardly over various sections of shelving(Sentencedict.com), served to divert her temporarily.
59. There is no evidence that large systems would divert significant numbers of travelers from their cars.
60. It viewed the Marshalls attack merely as an enemy attempt to divert strength from our southern operations.
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