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отклоня́ться — meaning in English

otklonyatsya

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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.
  • digress verb To wander away from the main topic when speaking or writing.
  • diverge verb To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • drift noun A slow, gradual movement or change, often without direct control.
  • skew verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  • swerve verb To turn suddenly away from a straight path, often to avoid hitting something.

Senses

отклоня́ться 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.
  • digress (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
  • diverge (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • drift (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
  • skew (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  • swerve To go out of a straight line; to deflect.

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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