| deviate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert | a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. |
| ~ fetishist | one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature). |
| ~ masochist | someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment. |
| ~ nympho, nymphomaniac | a woman with abnormal sexual desires. |
| ~ child molester, paederast, pederast | a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner. |
| ~ paedophile, pedophile | an adult who is sexually attracted to children. |
| ~ miscreant, reprobate | a person without moral scruples. |
| ~ sadist | someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others. |
| ~ sadomasochist | someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism. |
| ~ lech, lecher, letch, satyr | man with strong sexual desires. |
| ~ bugger, sodomist, sodomite, sod | someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male). |
| v. (motion) | 2. deviate, divert | turn aside; turn away from. |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| ~ yaw | deviate erratically from a set course.; "the yawing motion of the ship" |
| ~ detour | travel via a detour. |
| ~ sidetrack, straggle, digress, depart | wander from a direct or straight course. |
| v. (stative) | 3. depart, deviate, diverge, vary | be at variance with; be out of line with. |
| ~ aberrate | diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration.; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens" |
| ~ aberrate | diverge from the expected.; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman" |
| ~ belie, contradict, negate | be in contradiction with. |
| ~ differ | be different.; "These two tests differ in only one respect" |
| v. (motion) | 4. deviate | cause to turn away from a previous or expected course.; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding" |
| ~ divert | send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one. |
| ~ perturb | cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull.; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet" |
| ~ perturb | disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom.; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion" |
| ~ shunt | provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt. |
| adj. | 5. aberrant, deviant, deviate | markedly different from an accepted norm.; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" |
| ~ abnormal, unnatural | not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm.; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food" |
| dodge | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. contrivance, dodge, stratagem | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
| ~ scheme, strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
| ~ plant | something planted secretly for discovery by another.; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant" |
| ~ pump-and-dump scheme | an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises. |
| ~ wangle, wangling | an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery. |
| n. (act) | 2. dodge | a quick evasive movement. |
| ~ evasion | the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver. |
| n. (communication) | 3. dodge, dodging, scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery. |
| ~ falsehood, untruth, falsity | a false statement. |
| v. (motion) | 4. dodge | make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid.; "The child dodged the teacher's blow" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 5. dodge | move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course.; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (communication) | 6. circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).; "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" |
| ~ beg | dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted.; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion" |
| ~ quibble | evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections. |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| dodge | | |
| evade | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bilk, elude, evade | escape, either physically or mentally.; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" |
| ~ escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement.; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
| v. (social) | 2. evade | practice evasion.; "This man always hesitates and evades" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (communication) | 3. evade | use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid.; "The con man always evades" |
| ~ get away, escape, get by, get off, get out | escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" |
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