To deflect or divert (a person or thing) from some course or in some direction; to cause to turn aside, away, or back. Also reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive (transferred and figurative). To turn aside the course or tendency, or interrupt the progress, of (an action, design, feeling, etc.); to…

To pull or draw with a wrench or twist; to twist or wrest out; to force, turn, etc., by a twisting… With prepositions, as from, into, out of, to.

To alter abruptly the direction of (a line). to break a ball (Cricket): to make it change its direction on touching the ground. to break joint…

To bend or turn to one side or from a straight line; to change the direction of; to cause to deviate from its course.

transitive. To turn (any one) out of the way, turn aside, divert, deflect, change the direction of. (literal and figurative)

poetic. To draw aside, divert (a look).

transitive. To push or set aside; to cause (a person) to be distracted from an immediate or important issue; to divert (a project or debate) away…