0 past simple and past participle of divert --
2 to take someone's attention away from something: --
A scheme introduced in the 1940s to provide domestic water supplies diverted natural mountain streams and destroyed snail habitats in the low-lying areas.
With much transport also diverted, this provoked widespread disruption in other economic activities.
Besides, it diverted energy and resources from the crucial task of modernising pensions, to which it had little to contribute.
It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.
When science is diverted from them, science suffers an irreparable loss of know-how in the form of specialized information and methodology.
In some instances this has diverted attention from the study of the physiology of reproduction to the development of new technologies for assisted reproduction.
Having diverted the trolley, you now face the allegedly new problem of the trolley's hurtling towards the five after circling.
By these speculations, contemplative heads, who else might dangerously have busied themselves about state affairs, were finally moped and diverted.
