swerve
IPA: swˈɝv
noun
- A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
- A deviation from duty or custom.
verb
- (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
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Examples of "swerve" in Sentences
- The car swerved to avoid the animal.
- It may even swerve off the side of the runway.
- The first is to swerve to avoid a collision loses.
- The car swerved all of a sudden but no one was hurt.
- Bram swerved the car to avoid hitting an animal on the road.
- The ability to countersteer and swerve was essentially absent.
- That's a rather sudden swerve to the generic from the specific.
- Boelcke had to swerve to avoid a midair collision in the dogfight.
- The reason that spin on a football makes it swerve is the Magnus effect.
- Amazingly, the rest of the cars managed to swerve and avoid the stalled cars.