diverge vs negate

diverge and negate both are verbs.

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

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

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

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