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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Err :: Err (v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin..
Tralineate :: Tralineate (v. i.) To deviate; to stray; to wander.
Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.
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..
Deviator :: Deviator (n.) One who, or that which, deviates..
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..
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..
Deviate :: Deviate (v. t.) 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..
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Deviatory :: Deviatory (a.) Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion..
Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing..
Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
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..
Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..
Stray :: Stray (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way..
Wry :: Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
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..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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