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noun an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
noun a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
noun an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
originFrom Middle English diversion, dyversioun, from Medieval Latin diversiō, from Latin divertō (“to divert”); see divert.
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