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Deviate

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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Similar meaning 4

Abnormal 84% connected

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

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Abnormal 84% connected

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

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Unnatural 84% connected

Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unnatural 84% connected

Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Manner of action 10

Aberrate 76% connected

To go astray; to diverge.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Belie 76% connected

To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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Contradict 76% connected

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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Depart 76% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

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Detour 76% connected

A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

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Digress 76% connected

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or spea…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perturb 76% connected

To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

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Shunt 76% connected

To shun; to move from.

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Straggle 76% connected

To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the…

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Yaw 76% connected

To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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Narrower term 9

Bugger 76% connected

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

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Fetishist 76% connected

A believer in fetiches.

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Lech 76% connected

To lick.

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Lecher 76% connected

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

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Letch 76% connected

See Leach.

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Pederast 76% connected

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

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Satyr 76% connected

A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.

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Sod 76% connected

of Seethe

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Sodomite 76% connected

An inhabitant of Sodom.

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Broader term 5

Differ 76% connected

To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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Divert 76% connected

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 u…

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Miscreant 76% connected

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.

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Reprobate 76% connected

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Derivationally related 6

Deviation 74% connected

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Deviation 74% connected

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Digression 74% connected

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.

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Digression 74% connected

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Vary 74% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Vary 74% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 8

Aberrant 92% connected

Wandering; straying from the right way.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Degenerate 92% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Depart 92% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deviant 92% connected

Deviating.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Diverge 92% connected

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Divert 92% connected

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 u…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pervert 92% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vary 92% connected

To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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