Deflected definition

Jackson deflected her foot inches away from its mark.

He deflected the first, but the second slapped his cheek.

About 90% of the total exports and imports of the country pass through the port, though the completion, in 1904, of a broad-gauge railway connecting Cairo and Port Said deflected some of the cotton exports to the Suez Canal route.

A deflected shot by a defender resulted in a corner kick.

At Bellegarde the Valserine flows in (right), and then the river resumes its southerly direction, from which the great gorge had deflected it for a while.