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desvío

detour, deviation

noun des-BEE-oh Rare

Also means

diversion

Usage Note

Desvío refers both to a road detour and to a figurative straying from a path or norm. The related verb is desviar. In driving contexts, desvío appears on road signs to indicate a mandatory re-route, whereas desviación is more common in formal written registers for a statistical or moral deviation.

Examples

"El desvío nos llevó por un camino de tierra."

Natural Translation

The detour took us along a dirt road.

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