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Definition
to distract someone's attention or (more rarely) to entertain
- It was only a tiny disturbance anyway—not strong enough to divert her from the ambition welling in her now:One (59% in)
divert = distract
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in undiverted means not and reverses the meaning of diverted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in undiverted means not and reverses the meaning of diverted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
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