divert
verb (used with object)
to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
divertible
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a word derived from
divert.
Example Sentences
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The indictment alleges Indivior convinced them the treatment was “safer, less divertible, and less abusable than other opioid-addiction treatment drug,” prosecutors said, Bloomberg’s Drew Armstrong and Riley Griffin report.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
Obviously the difficulty lies in the fact that there is no way of foretelling what particular kind of knowledge is divertible to destructive ends .
From Time Magazine Archive
He who had the keenest eye for instances and illustrations, and was least divertible by casual side-curiosity, would score the quickest triumph.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
