divert
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
turn aside; turn away from
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- digression derivation
Sense 2 verb
send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
Types & categories
Sense 3 verb
occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
The play amused the ladies
Types & categories
- entertain hypernym
Related & opposite
- diversion derivation
- entertainment derivation
- amusing derivation
Sense 4 verb
withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
Types & categories
- draw off hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | digression |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | turn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | yaw |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | detour |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sidetrack |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | send |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | route |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | deviate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | diversion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | entertainment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | amusing |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | entertain |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | draw off |