Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to deviate
Participle: deviated
Gerund: deviating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | deviate |
| you | deviate |
| he;she;it | deviates |
| we | deviate |
| you | deviate |
| they | deviate |
Perfect
| I | have deviated |
| you | have deviated |
| he;she;it | has deviated |
| we | have deviated |
| you | have deviated |
| they | have deviated |
Past
| I | deviated |
| you | deviated |
| he;she;it | deviated |
| we | deviated |
| you | deviated |
| they | deviated |
Pluperfect
| I | had deviated |
| you | had deviated |
| he;she;it | had deviated |
| we | had deviated |
| you | had deviated |
| they | had deviated |
Future
| I | will deviate |
| you | will deviate |
| he;she;it | will deviate |
| we | will deviate |
| you | will deviate |
| they | will deviate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deviated |
| you | will have deviated |
| he;she;it | will have deviated |
| we | will have deviated |
| you | will have deviated |
| they | will have deviated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | deviate |
| you | deviate |
| he;she;it | deviate |
| we | deviate |
| you | deviate |
| they | deviate |
Perfect
| I | have deviated |
| you | have deviated |
| he;she;it | have deviated |
| we | have deviated |
| you | have deviated |
| they | have deviated |
Imperfect
| I | deviated |
| you | deviated |
| he;she;it | deviated |
| we | deviated |
| you | deviated |
| they | deviated |
Pluperfect
| I | had deviated |
| you | had deviated |
| he;she;it | had deviated |
| we | had deviated |
| you | had deviated |
| they | had deviated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would deviate |
| you | would deviate |
| he;she;it | would deviate |
| we | would deviate |
| you | would deviate |
| they | would deviate |
Perfect
| I | would have deviated |
| you | would have deviated |
| he;she;it | would have deviated |
| we | would have deviated |
| you | would have deviated |
| they | would have deviated |
Imperative
| you | deviate |
| we | Let's deviate |
| you | deviate |
Verbs conjugated like 'deviate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'deviate'
aeriate,
aviate,
breviate,
debate,
decimate,
dedicate,
deflate,
delate,
delibate,
deligate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Late Latin dēviātus, perfect passive participle of dēviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dévier. See: French '
dévier'.
Verbs referencing "deviate"
Spanish
desviar, Ido deviacar.
Sample Sentences
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These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:]
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Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track. [1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:]
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Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
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His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
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[2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC:]