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abweichen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deflect verb To cause something to change direction, usually by bouncing or glancing off.
  • depart verb To leave a place, especially to begin a journey.
  • deviate verb To move away from a planned course, method, or expected standard.
  • deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  • differ verb To be unlike something else in one or more ways.
  • diverge verb To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • diversion noun Something done to distract attention from what is really happening.
  • straggle verb To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.

Senses

abweichen is used for these senses in English:

  • deflect (psychology) To redirect culpability to avoid it.
  • depart (intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
  • depart (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
  • deviation The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  • differ (intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
  • diverge (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • diversion The act of diverting.
  • straggle (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.

deflect — full definition

  1. verb To cause something to change direction, usually by bouncing or glancing off.
  2. verb To avoid dealing directly with a question, criticism, or blame.

depart — full definition

  1. verb To leave a place, especially to begin a journey.
  2. verb To differ from or move away from a plan, rule, or usual way of doing something.

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