Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn away or aside; divert.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To turn away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
turn away ; todivert .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
de- + turn. Compare detour.
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