Word Meanings - DIVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that

Additional info about word: DIVERT

turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton. 2. To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith. Syn. -- To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See Amuse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERT)

• Deflect
• Turn
• deviate
• diverge
• swerve
• divert
• recurve
• Divorce
• Separate
• disconnect
• dissever
• alienate
• Relax
• Slacken
• loosen
• remit
• abate
• mitigate
• release
• unbend
• relent
• recreate
• rest
• enervate
• Unstring

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVERT)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to DIVERT)

• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• ALIENATE
  1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.