Swerve

What do we mean by swerve?

To turn aside or be turned aside from a straight path or established pattern. transitive & intransitive verb

The act of swerving. noun

To turn aside suddenly or quickly; turn suddenly aside from the direct course or aim: used of both physical and moral action.

To wander; rove; stray; roam; ramble.

To climb or move upward by winding or turning.

To turn aside; cause to change in course.

A turning aside. noun

To turn aside. transitive verb

To stray; to wander; to rope. intransitive verb

To go out of a straight line; to deflect. intransitive verb

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. intransitive verb

To bend; to incline. intransitive verb

To climb or move upward by winding or turning. intransitive verb

To stray; to wander; to rope. verb

To go out of a straight line; to deflect. verb

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. verb

To bend; to incline. verb

To climb or move upward by winding or turning. verb

To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact. verb

Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line verb

A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

A deviation from duty or custom.

Words that are spelled similarly to swerve:
swerve, serve, swelve, swarve, sterve.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word swerve:
clinamen, epicurus, lucretius, oncoming, curl, environs, cue, crashes, avoid, collision, hitting, crash, atoms, bend, ball, path, wonder, spin, car, pace, suddenly, bowling, drink, struck, lap, jay, shore, vehicle, truck, wheel, deployed, dangerous, mines, stop, miss, rear, traffic, shot, direction, contact, accident, metres, lane, off, speed, driver, hit, stay, turn, killing, onto, causing, task, away, vehicles, road.

Words that rhyme with swerve:
nerve, curve, reserve, serve, preserve, observe, oeuvre, deserve, verve, unnerve, conserve, mirv, serv, irv, merv, herve, optic nerve, underserve, federal reserve, olfactory nerve, acoustic nerve, femoral nerve, normal curve, accessory nerve, military reserve, facial nerve, sine curve, spinal nerve, auditory nerve, cervical nerve, exponential curve, thoracic nerve, valuation reserve, wandering nerve, lumbar nerve, sensory nerve, break of serve, motor nerve, shooting preserve, territorial reserve, home reserve, regression curve, hors-d-oeuvre, irve, proserv, zurve.

Adjectives that are often used to describe swerve:
sudden, great, sharp, slight, quick, atomic, violent, little, slightest, abrupt, unexpected, least, wide, wild, next, smooth, dangerous, left, graceful, uncaused, occasional, radical, swift, final, epicurean, random, big, sickening, downward, fatal, characteristic, tiny, famous, dramatic, firm, double, fresh, desperate, gnarled, sideways, unpredictable, minute, horrible, terrible, beautiful, rapid, lucretian, necessary, nonnegative, decent, watery, accidental, fictitious, revisionary, finer, imperceptible, bellied, unstudied, unmistakable, leftward, drunken, arbitrary, nervous, upward, originary, oncoming, aboriginal, instant, irishman, feminine, spontaneous, supreme, man.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective swerve:
right.

Consonant match to swerve:
suave, swive.

Words that sound like swerve:
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