EGAVE

refracted

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb simple past and past participle of refract
  2. adjective Turned out of its straight course.
    a refracted a ray of light
  3. adjective Bent back at an acute angle.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

averse deflected reverse averted retrofract diverted disentrained retruse reverberate downturned

Often followed by

through ray by rays in and light at wave

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