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Diverting \Di*vert"ing\, a. Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
Divert \Di*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Diverting.] [F. divertir, fr. L. divertere, diversum, to go different ways, turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. Divorce.]
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To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
That crude apple that diverted Eve.
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To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
--C. J. Smith.Syn: To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See Amuse.
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vb. (present participle of divert English)
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Usage examples of "diverting".
You are no doubt asking yourself why I am concerned about a handful of unlettered hobbledehoys whose ancestors have been diverting themselves with rebellions for five hundred years.
We can make up the total momentum after diverting the planetoid and let the impactor control system get things back in sync again.
Not much work appeared to be involved in repairing the hole and, after all, he did owe Inga Tollefson something for diverting the authorities.
Litsi, the prince currently diverting Danielle to a fifteenth-century junket, was her own nephew.
Tom Ratel tumbled over head and heels for us in his usual diverting manner.
While this proved highly diverting for the first ten minutes, Tas soon grew bored with chasing the locks about and again made the pronouncement that would have sent most people running, screaming, for the exit.
Other reports dealt with the probable aftermath of diverting Thunderstrike into Luna.
I grasped them, one with each hand, as the basto struck me, and, thanks to my unusual strength, I succeeded in breaking the force of the impact as well as diverting the horns from my vitals.
Mary McKay only by her general reputation, and given that Amanda had put her forward, he had expected the usual New Age Earth Mother Goddess Worshiping Off the Male Chauvinist Pig vibrational blather, which, knowing George, would serve as springboard material for diverse diverting digressions into the wildest of blue yonders.
Jimmy drew weapons and executed a parry of an overhand slash by Jack, diverting the blade with his dirk, then lunging with his rapier in return.
They succeeded in diverting local taxes from the Pontifical tax-collectors to their own.
From time immemorial the Corso at Rome has presented a strange and diverting spectacle during the carnival.
You are always diverting, and if your sportiveness leads you now and then to say some odd things I fancy I am too well-acquainted with you to believe you mean them.
The citizen crusade made diverting stories for the media, but the scientists knew that the main - and ominous - result of thousands on thousands of wellmeaning people trooping through woodlands with swatters, cyanide guns and torches had been to force the.
Hamilton, for his part, had no intention of diverting votes from Adams this time around.