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deflect

verb

• debar
• obviate
• avert
• head off
• stave off
• fend off
• avoid
• ward off
• bend
• turn away
• distract
• parry
• block
• confuse
• disconcert
• fence
• flurry
• forbid
• foreclose
• forestall
• preclude
• prevent
• put off
• turn

sounds kind of like

• defalcate
• devil's weed
• diabolist
• diphylla ecaudata
• duffel coat
• duffle coat
• duplicate
• duplicity

rhymes with

• affect
• bedecked
• brecht
• checked
• collect
• confect
• connect
• decked
• deject
• detect
• disaffect
• disconnect
• disinfect
• disrespect
• dissect
• effect
• eject
• elect
• erect
• expect
• hecht
• infect
• inject
• inspect
• interconnect
• interject
• intersect
• misdirect
• necked
• neglect
• overprotect
• perfect
• protect
• recollect
• reelect
• reflect
• reject
• respect
• sect
• select
• subject
• suspect
• unchecked
• wrecked