Definition of deviate

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Deviate (v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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Yaw :: Yaw (v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship..
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..
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..
Heteroclite :: Heteroclite (n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension..
Err :: Err (v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
Warp :: Warp (v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve..
Deviate :: Deviate (v. t.) To cause to deviate.
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
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..
Deviate :: Deviate (v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
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.
Deviated :: Deviated (imp. & p. p.) of Deviat.
Sheer :: Sheer (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle..
Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
Deviator :: Deviator (n.) One who, or that which, deviates..
Exorbitate :: Exorbitate (v. i.) To go out of the track; to deviate.
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