All deflect synonyms

verb deflect

• swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
• ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• pivot — a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
• divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
• whip — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• wheel — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
• whirl — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
• sheer — transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings.
• fend — to ward off (often followed by off): to fend off blows.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
• diverge — to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
• slew — simple past tense of slay.
• twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
• disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
• sidetrack — any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
• parry — to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
• deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
• wind — the act of winding.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep off — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
• bounce — When an object such as a ball bounces or when you bounce it, it moves upwards from a surface or away from it immediately after hitting it.
• glance — to look quickly or briefly.
• rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
• refract — to subject to refraction.
• ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
• repel — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
• redirect — to direct again.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).