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Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.

Deflect :: Deflect (v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve..

Wander :: Wander (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject..

Lean :: Lean (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

Err :: Err (v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals..

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.

Incline :: Incline (v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south..

Exorbitate :: Exorbitate (v. i.) To go out of the track; to deviate.

Vary :: Vary (v. i.) To deviate; to depart; to swerve; -- followed by from; as, to vary from the law, or from reason..

Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

Wanderer :: Wanderer (n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty..

Stray :: Stray (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way..

Oblique :: Oblique (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

Bevel :: Bevel (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant..

Refract :: Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium..

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