deviate
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deviate
▶verb /ˈdiːvɪeɪt/ diverge from an established course or from usual or accepted standards. ▶noun & adjective /ˈdiːvɪət/ old-fashioned term for deviant.
– derivatives
deviator noun.
deviator noun.
– origin C16 (as adj. in the sense ‘remote’): from late L. deviat-, deviare ‘turn out of the way’, from L. de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’.
'deviate' also found in these Oxford entries:
bend
- curve
- deflect
- delirium
- depart
- derogate
- deviant
- fade
- licence
- off spin
- prevaricate
- seam bowler
- thought police
- variable
- wry
