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Diverge

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 deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

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Manner of action 10

Aberrate 76% connected

To go astray; to diverge.

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Belie 76% connected

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

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Bifurcate 76% connected

Alt. of Bifurcated

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Branch 76% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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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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Divaricate 76% connected

To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

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Fork 76% connected

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curve…

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Furcate 76% connected

Alt. of Furcated

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Ramify 76% connected

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Broader term 9

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Differ 76% connected

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

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Extend 76% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Derivationally related 8

Difference 74% connected

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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Difference 74% connected

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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Divergency 74% connected

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

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Divergency 74% connected

A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

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Divergent 74% connected

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

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Divergent 74% connected

Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

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Synonym 3

Depart 92% connected

To part; to divide; to separate.

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Deviate 92% connected

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.

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…

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Antonym 2

Converge 94% connected

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

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Converge 94% connected

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

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