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1. Tending to move apart in different directions
   "in some instances the diverging routes are high-speed lines"
   - divergent

1. Move or draw apart
   "The two paths diverge here"
    
2. Have no limits as a mathematical series
    
3. Extend in a different direction
   "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged"
    
4. Be at variance with; be out of line with
   - deviate, vary, depart

See also: branching, divergence, divergency, divergent, oblique, radiating

Type of: be, differ, move

Antonym: converge

Encyclopedia: Diverge