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Definition[1]

vivaṭṭeti : [vi + vaṭṭ + e] turns back; diverts; destroys.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

Vivaṭṭeti [vi+vaṭṭeti] to turn down or away (perhaps in dogmatic sense to turn away from saŋsāra), to divert, destroy: only in phrase vivaṭṭayi saŋyojanaŋ (in standard setting with acchecchi taṇhaŋ), where the usual v. l. is vāvattayi (see vāvatteti). Thus at M i.12, 122; S i.127; iv.105, 205, 207, 399; A i.134; iii.246, 444 sq.; iv.8 sq.; It 47 (T. vivattayi).

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
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