Diverge

From Medieval Latin dÄ«vergÅ ("bend away from, go in a different direction"), from Latin dÄ«- + vergÅ ("bend").

Full definition of diverge

(intransitive, literally of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

1916, Robert Frost, â€œâ€ (poem), in :Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
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(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
(intransitive, literally of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
(intransitive, figuratively, of an interests, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
(intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.The sequence $x_n = n^2$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.