DEVIATE Meaning of DEVIATE in English v. 1 turn aside or away, swerve, veer, wander, stray, drift, digress, diverge; divert He has chosen a path that deviates from the straight and narrowadj. , n. 2 See deviant, 1, 3, above. Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012