Deflect vs Deform - What's the difference?
deflect | deform |
To make (something) deviate from its original path.
To deviate from its original path.
(figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
(figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
* 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
To change the form of, negatively.
To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
To mar the character of.
To alter the shape of by stress.
To become misshapen or changed in shape.
(obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
In lang=en terms the difference between deflect and deform
is that deflect is to deviate from its original path while deform is to become misshapen or changed in shape.As verbs the difference between deflect and deform
is that deflect is to make (something) deviate from its original path while deform is to change the form of, negatively.As an adjective deform is
(obsolete) deformed, misshapen.deflect
English
Verb
(en verb)- The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.
- Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
deform
English
Verb
(en verb)- a face deformed by bitterness
- a marriage deformed by jealousy
Synonyms
* distort, contort, warpDerived terms
* deformable * deformationAdjective
(en adjective)- who so kild that monster most deforme , / And him in hardy battaile ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame [...].