deviate

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 1.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
2. verb To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

   His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.

3. verb To cause to diverge.
4. noun A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
5. noun A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
6. adjective deviant

Similar words

deviant pervert degenerate divert deflect diverge depart vary err distract

Often followed by

from in significantly to more by considerably too sexual

Word family

deviated deviates deviating deviation deviations deviator deviators deviatory