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{
"term": "deviate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "deviate",
"heSheIt": "deviates"
},
"pastSimple": "deviated",
"pastParticiple": "deviated",
"ingForm": "deviating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be different from something; to do something in a different way from what is usual or expected",
"sensetop": "deviate (from something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The bus had to deviate from its usual route because of a road closure."
},
{
"text": "He never deviated from his original plan."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "significantly", "substantially"],
"preposition": ["by", "from"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪt/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪts/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪtɪd/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪt/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪts/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪtɪd/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdiːvieɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/deviate/deviating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘remote’): from late Latin deviat- ‘turned out of the way’, from the verb deviare, from de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent."
}