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What does deflecting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of deflect
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Whirling around, he swung hard with the Golden Axe, deflecting a flurry of knives that had been thrown in his direction.
I had put a robe on over my nightgown and both garments together did a fair job of deflecting the faint breeze.
Sharon seems to be deflecting on the art of understanding poetry in itself, because she objectifies this work with the woman as she knew her.
Even so, architects are carefully vetting developer agreements in hopes of deflecting litigation.
Some of these approximate perfect round beads, creating scintillating effects in deflecting light rays.
He has made himself a lightning conductor, deflecting the attention away from Blair.

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