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Divaricate

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Divaricate"

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Word	Definition
deviateverb	(intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
divergeverb	(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
divagatenoun	(intransitive) To stray from a subject or theme.
branch offverb	(of a conversation) To divert from the main topic of conversation.
fork offverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) to diverge into two or more separate paths.
divertverb	(transitive) To turn aside from a course.
disperseverb	(transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
branchnoun	The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
spread outverb	Far apart, not close to each other, extended over an expanse of space or time.
dispartnoun	The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
differverb	(intransitive) Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
dividenoun	A thing that divides.
disseververb	To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
digressverb	(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
aberrateverb	(intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
scatternoun	The act of scattering or dispersing.
spreadnoun	The act of spreading.
distributeverb	(transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
divertiseverb	(obsolete, ambitransitive) to entertain, to cheer up.
disspreadverb	Alternative form of dispread. [(archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.]