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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Bevel :: Bevel (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant..
Oblique :: Oblique (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
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.
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
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..
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..
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..
Depart :: Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading..
Deviatory :: Deviatory (a.) Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion..
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun..
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..
Erratic :: Erratic (n.) One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.
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..
Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Deviated :: Deviated (imp. & p. p.) of Deviat.
Deviator :: Deviator (n.) One who, or that which, deviates..
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