| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| deviate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·vi·ate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d  v- t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: de·vi·at·ed, de·vi·at·ing, de·vi·ates
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To turn aside from a course or way. 2. To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; stray. See synonyms at swerve. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause to turn aside or differ. | | NOUN: | (- t) A deviant. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin dvire, dvit- : Latin d-, de- + Latin via, road; see wegh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | devi·ator —NOUN
devi·a·tory (- -tôr, -t r) —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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