Swerve
[swɜːv] or [swɝv]
Definition
(noun.) the act of turning aside suddenly.
(verb.) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; 'The car cut to the left at the intersection'; 'The motorbike veered to the right'.
Inputed by Leslie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To stray; to wander; to rope.
(v. i.) To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To bend; to incline.
(v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
(v. t.) To turn aside.
Typed by Lisa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Deviate, depart, diverge, wander, turn aside, go astray.
Editor: Sharon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deviate, diverge, stray, wander, divaricate, bend, incline, trend
ANT:Continue, disincline
Editor: Rena
Definition
v.i. to turn depart from any line duty or custom: to incline: to rove wander.—n. an act of swerving.—adj. Swerve′less that does not swerve.—n. Swerv′er one who swerves.
Typist: Ora
Examples
- Adhere to that preference--never swerve thence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was far more curious, in every swerve of the carriage, and every cry of the postilions, than he had been since he quitted London. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Caroline went home, laid her plans, and took a resolve not to swerve from them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was really uncomfortable on the point he inquired about, but she only became a little more serious, and her eyes did not swerve. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But even before his body swerved forward on her, a sudden, cunning comprehension was expressed on her face, and in a flash she was out of the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So she swerved down to the steep, tree-hidden bank above the pond, where the alders twisted their roots. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But soon he swerved to the whist-table, rubbing his hands and saying, Come now, let us be serious! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yes, answered Venn, swerving round in obedience; and, after a pause, I wish you would tell me what this great trouble is. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And as he did so, he remembered Gudrun's last words to him, and her face lifted up to him as he sat on the swerving horse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It had hardly been a propitious beginning, but he had chosen his course, and would show no swerving. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Whenever criticism slackens, whenever we sink into acquiescence, the mind swerves aside and clings with the gratitude of the weary to some fixed idea. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Sanford