Deflects is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 218 anagrams from letters in deflects (cdeeflst).
1545-55; Latin dēflectere to bend down, turn aside, equivalent to dē- de- + flectere to bend, turn
It would have taken more time than we had to deflect us enough to avoid a smash.
According to Crawford, Alvarez is “focusing her entire effort publicly on Protess” to deflect attention.
The impulse would have done nothing to deflect a bullet, which would likely have torn through his arm and into him.
Yet, Obama might take some of these military actions anyway just to deflect political pressures at home.
Since the affair with Piper he had not, however, again offered to deflect a bat.
But when I pulled her toward me to comfort her and tell her that I was sorry, she instinctively flexed her muscles to deflect me.
A soft answer, if soft enough, will deflect the stroke of the sword of justice.
That rebuke of Barber's seemed to deflect Cis's interest from the rooms to herself.
The novel like its style coloured, but did not deflect, the stream of English literature.
Creationists need a Muslim hero, and American right-wingers need a “good” Muslim with whom to deflect accusations of Islamophobia.
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