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deviate verb

• depart from an established course.
• "you must not deviate from the agreed route"
Similar: diverge, digress, drift, stray, slew, veer, swerve, turn away, turn aside, get sidetracked, branch off, differ, vary, change, depart, be different, be at variance with, run counter to, contrast with, contravene, contradict, divagate,

deviate noun

• another term for deviant (noun).
• "the whole affair offers revealing insights into attitudes towards 'sexual deviates'"

deviate adjective

• departing from usual or accepted standards; deviant.
• "their deviate behaviour"
Origin: mid 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘remote’): from late Latin deviat- ‘turned out of the way’, from the verb deviare, from de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’. The verb dates from the mid 17th century.


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