verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flight is diverted (= it is made to change direction and land at a different airport )
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Our flight was diverted to Manchester because of poor weather.
divert suspicion (= make people have suspicions about someone else )
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He started the rumour to divert suspicion from himself.
traffic is diverted (= made to go in another direction )
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Traffic was diverted onto the A166 as emergency services cleared the wreckage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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It viewed the Marshalls attack merely as an enemy attempt to divert strength from our southern operations.
attention
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Nor can Major divert attention with good news.
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For example: should he stick with Black or divert his attention to the woman?
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Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power.
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Elya must be furious with her, and she was trying to divert his attention .
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The need would be to show, against reasonable expectation, that the second did not divert attention from the first.
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That's another way of saying that people have little to divert their attention in restrooms.
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Disguise Disguise your steps with feints that make the opponent blink, or which divert his attention elsewhere.
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Forbes responded that this is an attempt by his rivals to divert attention from the issues.
energy
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Sport for example diverted the energy of the masses into activities that could inculcate both useful and attractive qualities.
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Its products also absorb and divert electrical energy .
flow
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Left: Waterfalls can chill your water in the winter, unless you divert the flow with a length of pipe.
funds
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The submarine tragedy reminds us that armaments and related technologies remain the main sump that diverts funds from essential human priorities.
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In recent years, Wilson and the Legislature also have diverted some transportation funds to the deficit-ridden state general fund.
government
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Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster?
money
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Large sums of money were diverted to them.
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All that money diverted from the city treasury predictably left Neza near bankruptcy.
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That extra money would then be diverted into personal retirement accounts.
river
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Salty water Negi says the 1819 earthquake created a 100-kilometre-long fissure that diverted the river .
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The Friant Dam, which diverts the river by canal to Kern County, left the riverbed dry.
road
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If the charges for motorway use are too high, they will divert drivers to other roads .
traffic
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Small channels are built to divert some of the traffic to the new route.
water
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We heard that he was accusing us of diverting all the water on to his field.
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Advocates of globalisation advise third world economic planners to divert water away from food production to increase manufacturing.
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A hunt follower with a terrier sends it in after others try to divert the water .
■ VERB
try
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Rachel has started packing up to leave, and I try to divert her with more coffee.
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Elya must be furious with her, and she was trying to divert his attention.
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A hunt follower with a terrier sends it in after others try to divert the water.
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The flames were moving over 200 feet a minute, and all we could do was try to divert it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divert/distract/draw attention from sth
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But his banter was a way of distracting attention from the issue at hand.
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Combine roses with earlier or later flowering plants, and with evergreens to distract attention from their leafless stems in winter.
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It also distracted attention from the continued effects of racism.
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Lisa tells us it diverts attention from the pain.
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Police said the message was a decoy to distract attention from the real danger area.
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Such comments have distracted attention from a long-awaited improvement in the economy.
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The authorities are said to take the view that the Gulf war will distract attention from civilian casualties in Jaffna.
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They know how to make themselves look good, and they also know how to divert attention from the less flattering stories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bring games in the car to divert the children during a long trip.
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Farmers were illegally diverting water to save their crops.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Williams, Woods intervened at that point and announced that no funds would be diverted.
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Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power.
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In all, $ 2.2 million in federal funds was illegally diverted by those convicted, prosecutors said.
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Shrub roses were trussed to let people pass; signs erected to divert visitors from the non-scenic compost heap.
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The software then diverts all output across the network to the printer on the other machine.
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Traffic was diverted on to the A166 as emergency services cleared the wreckage between Dunnington and Kexby, near York.
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We heard that he was accusing us of diverting all the water on to his field.
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What if unlimited water should be diverted from the two cascades by power-hungry industrialists and power-hungry governments?