Producing one H-bomb would have diverted enough resources to produce 80 atomic warheads.
When they told flight attendants they had been to West Africa, alarm bells rang and the flight was diverted.
But as the battle raged near the edge of the runway all flights had to be diverted to other cities.
When that garbage is diverted into a vat of energy-producing soup, it becomes a penny earned.
Every piece of garbage that is diverted from a landfill is a penny saved.
Nor was he ever diverted from his predilections by mere fashion or novelty.
My roving excursion this day had fatigued my body, and diverted my imagination.
Harriot Freke, even whilst she diverted me most, I half despised.
You and yours are to find that I can be constant, and am not to be diverted from my end.
And Prada, diverted by the meeting, whispered to Pierre: "Wait a bit, he'll amuse us."
early 15c., from Middle French divertir (14c.), from Latin divertere "to turn in different directions," blended with devertere "turn aside," from dis- "aside" and de- "from" + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Related: Diverted; diverting.
