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/daɪvˈərtɪŋ/ /dɪvˈərtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Divert v. t. (past & past part. diverted; pres. part. diverting)

To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. "That crude apple that diverted Eve."

To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. "We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy."

Synonyms: To please; gratify; amuse; entertain; exhilarate; delight; recreate. See Amuse.

Divert v. i. To turn aside; to digress. (Obs.) "I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces."

adjective

Diverting adj. Amusing; entertaining.

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Etymology of 'Diverting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diverting" Quotes from Famous Books

... caciques of Bogota were protected from desecration by diverting the course of a river and making the grave in its bed, and then letting the stream return to its natural course. Alaric, the leader of the Goths, was secretly buried in the same way. (Dorman, "Prim. Superst.," ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... first. My good old creature, you can't of course remember, but that little gentleman for whom you mother was laundress in the Temple was the ingenious Mr Goldsmith, author of a "History of England," the "Vicar of Wakefield," and many diverting pieces. You were brought almost an infant to his chambers in Brick Court, and he gave you some sugar-candy, for the doctor was always good to children. That gentleman who well-nigh smothered you by sitting down on you as you ...

— Some Roundabout Papers • W. M. Thackeray

... a kind of mania for organisation which is the sworn enemy of order; in its efforts to discover the best place for everything, it ends by diverting everything from its right function and locality, and making everything as inopportune as itself. It was a mistake to cut off all the lights this evening, on some pretext or the other. The rooms of the old mansion are not packed with bales of cotton, but with men who have ...

— The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel

... pair, finding them infinitely diverting; and was only brought back to his immediate duty by the insistence of the small ...

— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond

... spend their whole lives on the water, while many who are employed during the day on land sleep in boats on the various rivers. This condition of things corresponds in some degree to that described by Captain Marryat in that fine old story "Jacob Faithful," in the early chapters of which we get diverting glimpses of life on board a Thames lighterman. But the river population of China is still more absolutely aquatic in manner of life than the Thames barge-folk. The boats in which this class of the population live ...

— Man on the Ocean - A Book about Boats and Ships • R.M. Ballantyne

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