deflect

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.
2. fiil To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.

   “The defender deflected the cross into his own net.”

3. fiil To deviate from an original path or position.
4. fiil To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).

   “The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.”

5. fiil To divert (attention, etc.).

   “Certainly there was much in the relationship itself that, with so much energy deflected into logistic maneuvering was never […] "worked out."”

6. fiil To redirect culpability to avoid it.