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REDIRECT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they redirect ... he / she / it redirects
Past simple: redirected
Past participle: redirected
-ing form: redirecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Channel into a new direction
Example:
redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists
Synonyms:
airt; redirect
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "redirect" is one way to...):
direct; send (cause to go somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redirect"):
sublimate (direct energy or urges into useful activities)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s all on the agency's human Path to Mars.
(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)
