diverge
verb
[ dʌɪˈvəːdʒ ]
• (of a road, route, or line) separate from another route and go in a different direction.
• "the flight path diverged from the original flight plan"
Similar:
separate,
part,
disunite,
fork,
branch off,
divide,
subdivide,
split,
go in different directions,
go separate ways,
bifurcate,
divaricate,
ramify,
• (of a series) increase indefinitely as more of its terms are added.
Origin:
mid 17th century: from medieval Latin divergere, from Latin dis- ‘in two ways’ + vergere ‘to turn or incline’.
