deturn
English
Etymology
From de- + turn. Compare detour.
Verb
deturn (third-person singular simple present deturns, present participle deturning, simple past and past participle deturned)
- (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises
- the force that can deturn a feather from its couple downwards, is not able to deturn a ſtone
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deturn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Druten, dunter, retund, runted, turned