noun
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A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
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A deviation from duty or custom.
verb
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To stray; to wander; to rove.
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To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
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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.
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To bend; to incline.
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To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
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To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
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Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
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To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
Examples of swerve in a Sentence
Drivers swerve or brace for the impact, but never hit the dog.
This will increase the cost of boring and will render the holes more likely to swerve from the true direction.
Suddenly having to stop or swerve to avoid a hazard can result in a fatal crash.
They are fast flyers, and swerve around in the air in tight groups.
He managed to swerve past, but the guy reached out and made contact as the van skidded past.
Do n't swerve suddenly to avoid a poor surface.
Swerve the ball into the path of a forward running team mate, curl the ball across from a corner kick.
Trying to swerve around the front could put the rider into the path of oncoming traffic.
A member of the junior staff recently had to swerve to avoid a young child running through the car park.
In return the court paid his debts; but it ought never to be said that he was bribed, for the gold of the court never made him swerve from his political principles - never, for instance, made him a royalist.
Restoring v will make the path of the cylinder a trochoid; and so the swerve can be explained of the ball in tennis, cricket, baseball, or golf.
We had been told to aim into the wind, so as to swerve the round into the center of the figure 11 target.
The aim of the body swerve is to dummy the defender into moving the wrong way.
They are, as a rule, very easy to shoot on horseback, as, if one gallops a little in front of and on one side of them, they will hold their course, and come sailing past, offering a magnificent broadside shot, while under similar circumstances a prehensile-lipped rhinoceros will usually swerve away in such a manner as only to present his hind-quarters for a shot.
During the next four weeks no effort was spared to shake the determination of Huss; but he steadfastly refused to swerve from the path which conscience had once made clear.
Drowsy driving can lead drivers to swerve out of their lane, run into stationary objects (fences, cars, houses) and can cause traffic fatalities.
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Now, authorities are investigating whether the driver died as a result of his injuries sustained during the crash or if he died before the accident, causing the bus to swerve off the road and flip over.