Definitions for deflected

deflected de·flect·ed

Spelling: [dih-flek-tid]
IPA: /dɪˈflɛk tɪd/

Deflected is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in deflected (cddeeeflt).

Definitions for deflected

adjective

  1. curved or bent downward.
  2. deflexed.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to bend or turn aside; turn from a true course or straight line; swerve.

Origin of deflected

First recorded in 1820-30; deflect + -ed2

Examples for deflected

I kept asking why he, a somewhat nerdy numbers guy, was such a media star, but Norquist deflected the questions.

That great love wraps us all, is older than our sins, and is not deflected by them.

The five deflected questions about additional dates but hinted the show could tour to other markets.

Or the quarter inch Plexiglass might have deflected the bullets.

A bullet crashed through the skylight, for my arm had deflected his.

On other arrows fired his way, I thought he deflected them pretty effectively.

Used just “to soothe would-be emancipators while he deflected their petitions.”

Flagg tipped the shade of the lamp and deflected the light upon the couple.

Until then the stream had followed the street; but the debris that encumbered it deflected the course.

It would not be deflected; its whole force would be expended there.

Word Value for deflected
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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