Crossword clues for deflect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deflect \de*flect"\ (d[-e]*fl[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Deflecting.] [L. deflectere; de- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible.] To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected; to deflect a punch; to deflect criticism by acknowledging a mistake.
Sitting with their knees deflected under them.
--Lord
(1630).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make (something) deviate from its original path. 2 (context intransitive English) To deviate from its original path. 3 (context transitive figuratively English) To avoid addressing ''(questions, criticism, etc.).'' 4 (context transitive figuratively English) To divert ''(attention, etc.).''
WordNet
v. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, obviate, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off]
turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest [syn: bend, turn away]
turn aside [syn: deviate]
draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors" [syn: distract]
impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack" [syn: parry, block]
Usage examples of "deflect".
Reflectively she threw away the energy, deflecting it out across the amphitheater in gigantic dragon tongues of destruction.
After 3 additional hours terminal portion deflected at right angles from the perpendicular.
Jake could see the two of them huddled like thieves on the bridge, plotting every detail of the antismoking campaign and the subsequent disinformation cover-up to deflect the outrage of the addicted.
Delphaeic spell that would normally imprint your features on her own face, but just as she releases her spell, I release a Styric one that deflects the spell to Berit instead.
Obi-Wan, out on the edge of the collection panel, hunching under a curve of durasteel that splashed aside gouts of lava, deflecting Force blasts and countering strikes from this creature of rage that had been his best friend, suddenly comprehended an unexpectedly profound truth.
They were a little boxier, the armor not well sloped to deflect a shell.
His falling short of these ideals shows that someone as unstinting in the free pursuit of knowledge as Broca could still be deflected by endemic and respectable bigotry.
She closed on the hit man and swung the machete, her blade deflecting the Bushmaster barrel to the right.
Sefris extracted a chakram from its pocket, charged the shed, and sprang through the doorway, hands poised to deflect a missile or blade.
Then the usual obligatory introductions and sugary compliments and aggravating politenesses, and over an hour of back and forth, of demands calmly deflected, ponderous arguments, delays requested, astonishment where none was merited, questions needing to be repeated, facts dismissed, the truth disregarded--alibis, explanations, rationalizations, excuses, all courteously delivered.
There was little room for maneuver now, and the hammers of the ogres were hard for even dragon shields to deflect.
I stepped in to meet him, deflecting his attacks with wing blocks and butterfly kicks and using knee and elbows to take him down.
The Mec fired on her, but her shields easily deflected it, and it took only moments to overpower its computer as well.
Galileo deflected their slurs with humor: Learning of the death of one such opponent in December 1610, he wished aloud that the professor, having ignored the Medicean stars during his time on Earth, might now encounter them en route to Heaven.
It was silent in the Chunatas, the noise of the megacity deflected by the foothills, a condition matching the land behind Randtown.