Deflect

What do we mean by deflect?

To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate. intransitive & transitive verb

To cause to turn aside; turn or bend from a right line or a regular course.

To turn away or aside; deviate from a true course or a right line; swerve.

To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve. intransitive verb

To cause to turn aside; to bend. transitive verb

To make (something) deviate from its original path. verb

To deviate from its original path. verb

Draw someone's attention away from something verb

Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) verb

Turn aside and away from an initial or intended course verb

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening verb

Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest verb

To make (something) deviate from its original path.

(ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.

To deviate from its original path.

To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).

To divert (attention, etc.).

When politicians come under fire for missteps or failures, they often rely on the technique of trying to shift the focus onto others. In an attempt to duck responsibility, scrutiny, accountability, they often create "scapegoats" to shift blame onto. They try to lay their failures at the feet of others or make a way to justify them. They may try to shift the debate entirely onto a completely irrelevant and different subject. One example is to make a drastic decision that completely shifts focus from the previous subject of scrutiny onto this new drastic change or subject brought into light by the government. Seen commonly by politicians and on a less refined level , regular people supporting a political party or figure in arguments or debates, or as a psychological attempt to manipulate others in regular domestic situations. In politics the tactic is entirely strategic and is arguably one of the most devious and disreputable in the eyes of honest morality and accountability, but is quite common in politics around the world. Urban Dictionary

To be socially rejected; To remain apart from, by request of an individual's aunterage or clique. Urban Dictionary

A way for parents who do not know how to be parents to blame anything and everything for their failure to acceptably raise or discipline their children. Urban Dictionary

Noun. The act of avoiding receipt of a compliment by changing the subject or playing coy Urban Dictionary

What people do when they are afraid that people will judge them. They pretend to be someone they're not so when people don't like them it doesn't bother them because, hey, it's not them. Urban Dictionary

To deflect the blame of having deficated on someone else. Urban Dictionary

A way for a woman to reject a man in a beautiful way. The woman will agree with a pleasantry that you express to her, however, she will also say that you would not like this, that, me, etc. because of a flaw or tendency that the woman may or may not have. Thus rejecting your kindness, by way of deflection. Urban Dictionary

This is when somebody argues by DEFLECTING anything said against them. They will NEVER address any issues brought against them or their point but will instantly bring something else up to change the subject Deflective racists use this tactic whenever a situation/fact is brought up that goes against there beliefs People do this because they know damn well if they try to address the issue or stay relevant to it, there entire argument will get derailed Urban Dictionary

When someone, in an effort to seem like they care, pronounces your name differently every time you see each other to deflect from the fact you have nothing to talk about or are too busy to remember anything about this person Urban Dictionary

The state of matter in which you are called up to the board in class with an erection. In a last ditch effort to deflect that which is erect you offer a means of distraction, such as a brick through a window or a pair of inflatable fake boobs. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to deflect:
deflect, reflect, defect.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word deflect:
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Words that rhyme with deflect:
effect, affect, respect, project, subject, aspect, object, perfect, reflect, direct, connect, circumspect, defect, expect, correct, neglect, suspect, collect, select, protect, dialect, reject, detect, architect, retrospect, dissect, insect, sect, intellect, erect, elect, inspect, disrespect, eject, intersect, indirect, prefect, resurrect, interject, disconnect, inject, infect, transect, side effect, incorrect, recollect, spect, introspect, deject, interconnect, redirect, checked, aftereffect, confect, flecked, wrecked, disaffect, decked, reelect, necked, speckt, disinfect, in effect, bedecked, henpecked, reconnect, misdirect, brecht, welked, hecht, unchecked, doppler effect, trekked, specked, overprotect, greenhouse effect, reinspect, recht, albrecht, pecked, specht, take effect, future perfect, knecht, in that respect, present perfect, schlecht, sound effect, scale insect, past perfect, whelked, stick insect, cantonese dialect, coattails effect, liege subject, willful neglect, rechecked, wecht, child neglect, landscape architect.

Adjectives that are often used to describe deflect:
current.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective deflect:
blame, attention, criticism, ion, light, bullets, attacks, questions, offenders, sideways, currents.

Words that sound like deflect:
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