All 3 Uses

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Queen of Attolia
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Eugenides had a tongue that sometimes moved faster than his thoughts, and he responded with taunts of his own, usually more cutting, sometimes so effective that the cousins' attentions were diverted to his victim and Eugenides escaped.†
Chpt 4
Elsewhere Eddis's royal engineers diverted the water more deliberately, eroding years of careful work that had gone into maintaining the road that ran from Attolia's capital, through Eddis, to the capital city of Sounis, carrying most of the trade between the three countries.†
Chpt 7
When the Hamiathes Reservoir had been constructed, the river had been diverted to a new course and joined the Seperchia farther downstream.†
Chpt 11 *

Definitions:

(1) (divert as in: divert the traffic or funds)
to change the direction of something, or the purpose for which it is used
(2) (divert as in: divert her attention)
to distract someone's attention or (more rarely) to entertain
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)