diverge vs contradict

diverge and contradict both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diverge	No	No	Yes	No
contradict	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, contradict is a hyponym of diverge; that is, contradict is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than diverge:

Other hyponyms of diverge include aberrate, aberrate, belie, negate.

diverge (verb)	contradict (verb)
move or draw apart	prove negative; show to be false
extend in a different direction	deny the truth of
be at variance with; be out of line with	be resistant to
have no limits as a mathematical series	be in contradiction with