divert the attention (verb)
11divert — di‧vert [daɪˈvɜːt, d ǁ ɜːrt] verb [transitive] COMMERCE to spend money or make an effort in a new area of business or a new product: divert something into • The company should divert more resources into research. * * * divert UK US /daɪˈvɜːt/… …
12divert — verb (T) 1 to change the direction or purpose of something: diverted traffic | divert sth into: The company should divert more resources into research. 2 divert attention/criticism etc to stop people from paying attention to something or… …
13divert — verb Divert is used with these nouns as the object: ↑attention, ↑flight, ↑flow, ↑money, ↑resource, ↑river, ↑traffic …
14Conditional preservation of the saints — The Five Articles of Remonstrance Conditional election Unlimited atonement Total depravity …
15divert — [daɪˈvɜːt] verb [T] 1) to make something move or travel in a different direction 2) to take someone s attention away from something The government claimed that Cooper was trying to divert attention from his financial problems.[/ex] 3) to use… …
16amuse — verb (amused; amusing) Etymology: Middle French amuser, from Old French, from a (from Latin ad ) + muser to muse Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. archaic to divert the attention of …
17distract — verb To divert the attention of. The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored …
18distract — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. divert, turn aside; confuse, bewilder; derange, madden; entertain, amuse. See deviation, amusement, insanity. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To divert someone s attention] Syn. divert, divert the mind,… …
19abstract — adjective /ˈæbstrækt / (say abstrakt) 1. conceived apart from matter and from special cases: an abstract number. 2. theoretical; not applied: abstract science. 3. conceptual, as opposed to actual: *not only that abstract hunger for absent faces… …
20detract — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin detractus, past participle of detrahere to pull down, disparage, from de + trahere to draw Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. archaic to speak ill of 2 …
