Swerve

Definition: Swerve

Swerve

Noun

1. The act of turning aside suddenly.

2. An erratic deflection from an intended course.

Verb

1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swerve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Swerve \Swerve\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Swerved; Swerving.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Swerve

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Deviation

Verb: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear.

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Unwillingness

Demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate; avoid.

Variation

Noun: variation; alteration; (change). modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy. divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation. Verb: vary; (change); deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve.

Crosswords: Swerve

Frisian (roam, wander).

I'm betting he's going to swerve first. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Gets my swerve on, floss pure rocks (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

Make me swerve in the lane (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake)

Bust the move and then swerve (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Hip top today swerve what cha heard (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

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Books

• A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Zone Books / Swerve Editions) (reference)

• By Swerve of Shore: Exploring Dublin's Coast (reference)

• Swerve (reference)

  (more book examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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This was the custom of his century, and he would not swerve from it.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "swerve": body-swerve.

Albanian

shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, elusion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep), mënjanim (avoidance, demission, detachment, elimination, retirement, stand off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جعله ينحرف, ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swing, turn, veer), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, tangency, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander), отклонявам (abduct, avert, bend, call off, deflect, detract, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, turnout, variation). (various references)

Chinese 

突然转向. (various references)

Czech

stoèit (decant), uhnout (duck), odchýlit (deflect, divert, turn away, warp), dát faleš, říznout (spin), úchylka (deviance, deviation, variation). (various references)

Dutch

afwijken (angle, float, to be off track, to swerve off the runway). (various references)

Farsi 

منحرف کردن (Alienate, Bend, Calloff, Deflect, Divert, Pervert, Shunt, Warp, Wring), منحرف شدن (Digress, Stray, Wander), کج شدن (Careen, Heel, Lean, Lurch, Tilt), عدول کردن (Backtrack), طفره زدن (Dally, Dodge, Elude, Hedge, Shirk, Stall, Wriggle). (various references)

Finnish

koukkaus (hooking), kaartaa (bend, go round, make a circuit, turn a curve), heittelehtiä (skid, toss), heitteille (skid, toss). (various references)

French

embardée, écarter. (various references)

German

ausweichen (avoid, cower away, dodge, elude, elusiveness, equivocate, evade, evasion, fudge, get out of the way, make way, runaround, sheer away, shiftiness, shirk, shun, side step, sidestep, to elude, to evade, to shun, to side step, to swerve). (various references)

Greek 

στραβοτιμονιά, παρεκκλίνω (aberrate, deflect, depart, deviate, shunt, sidetrack), εκτρέπομαι (aberrate, deviate, digress, stray, take a deflection). (various references)

Hebrew 

תפ� ית (flip-flop, swing, turn, turnabout), סטי�" (aberration, bias, deflection, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, perversion). (various references)

Hungarian

kanyarodás (turning, wheeling, winding), fordulat (about face, change, corner, facing, idiom, juncture, kick in the pants, lap, locution, phrase, Rev, revolution, revolution per minute, rpm, turn, turning, volt, wimple). (various references)

Indonesian

melenceng (turn, veer). (various references)

Italian

svoltare (aberrate, corner, turn), sviare (deviate, distract, divert, go astray, lead astray, mislead, misrepresent, sidetrack, turn, turn aside), sterzata (deflection, travel), sterzare (steer), scartare (discard, dismiss, reject, scrap, sweep aside, unwrap), deviazione (aberration, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, diversion, offset, shunt), deviare; slittare, deviare bruscamente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

針路�'逸れる (to swerve from the course), 歪む (to be bent, to be crooked, to be distorted, to be gross-grained, to be perverted, to be strained, to deflect, to get bent, to incline, to slant, to swerve, to warp). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ろ�'それる (to swerve from the course), ひずむ (to be bent, to be crooked, to be distorted, to be gross-grained, to be perverted, to be strained, to deflect, to get bent, to incline, to slant, to swerve, to warp), いがむ (to be bent, to be crooked, to be distorted, to be gross-grained, to be perverted, to be strained, to deflect, to get bent, to incline, to slant, to swerve, to warp), ゆがむ (to be bent, to be crooked, to be distorted, to be gross-grained, to be perverted, to be strained, to deflect, to get bent, to incline, to slant, to swerve, to warp). (various references)

Korean 

벗어남. (various references)

Manx

slewal, slew (twist), leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture). (various references)

Pig Latin

ervesway

Portuguese

desviar (avert, deflect, depart, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, divert, err, fend, foil, head off, parry, shunt, ward off). (various references)

Romanian

se clãtina (falter, lurch, quake, reel, shake, stagger, swing, totter, vacillate, waddle, waggle, wobble), se abate (deflect, deviate, diverge, stray), sãri într-o parte (cannon), face sã devieze (deflect), deviere (aberration, abnormality, deflection, deflexion, departure from, diversion, obliquity, warp), devia (deflect, depart, digress, diverge, drift, glance, straggle, wander, warp), abatere (anomaly, deflection, departure, deviation, digression, error, exception, excursion, kick, licence, license, obliquity, transgression), abate (abbot, call away, deflect, distract, divert, straggle, stray, turn). (various references)

Russian 

отклонение в сторону, поворот (crook, rotation, slew, tumbling, turn, turn round, turning, turn-round, twist, veer, veering, wheeling, winding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastranjivanje (deviance, tangent), zastraniti (astray: go astray, deviate, digress, sway). (various references)

Spanish

viraje (toning, turn, volte-face), hurtar el cuerpo (dodge, duck), esguince (dodge, scowl, sprain, twist), desviarse bruscamente, desviar bruscamente, dar efecto a (twist). (various references)

Swedish

vridning (torsion, turn, twist, twisting, wiggle, wind, wrench, wriggle, wring), vika av (turn off), avvikelse (aberrancy, absconding, anomaly, declension, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, digress, digression, discrepancy, disorder, divergence, divergency, error, irregularity). (various references)

Turkish

saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), yoldan çıkmak (deviate, fall from, get out of hand, go astray, go off the rails, run off the rails), vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), döndürmek (deflect, return, reverse, revolve, roll, rotate, round off, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, swing, turn, turn aside, turn inside out, turn over, turn round, twiddle, twirl, veer, veer round, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, wind up), caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, recant, retract, swallow, wangle, wangle out of), ödün vermek (budge from, concede), çelmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, lapse, run off, skew, stray, trend, turn, turn aside), відхиляти (avert, challenge, divert, ignore, lead off, negative, non-concur, override, reject, repel, repudiate, ride over, turn aside), відхилення (aberration, challenge, declension, declination, denial, departure, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, excursus, incurvation, negative, rejection), збочувати (digress). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự chệch, sự đi lệch hướng. (various references)

Welsh

osgoi (avoid, evade, shirk), gwyro (bend, slope, stoop), cilio (recede, retreat). (various references)

flexus. (various references)

sweorfan. (various references)

gauchir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swerve": swerved, swerver, swervers, swerves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swerve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nwyvre, Servae, servay, servt, servy, swer, swerev, swever, swirf, swirve, sworve, werve. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ewers, resew, serve, sever, sewer, sweer, veers, verse.

-2 letters: ever, eves, ewer, ewes, rees, revs, seer, sere, veer, vees, weer, wees, were.

-3 letters: ere, ers, eve, ewe, ree, res, rev, see, ser, sew, vee, wee.

-4 letters: er, es, re, we.

+1 letter: oversew, reviews, swerved, swerver, swerves, viewers, weavers, weevers, wherves.

+2 letters: overawes, oversewn, oversews, overwets, overwise, previews, reweaves, swervers, waverers, whosever.

+3 letters: feverfews, howsoever, ovenwares, oversewed, overstrew, oversweet, overviews, overwears, overweens, rereviews, reviewals, reviewers, superwave, werwolves, whosoever.

+4 letters: feverworts, interviews, nonviewers, overbrowse, overpowers, oversewing, overstrewn, overstrews, overwaters, overweighs, overwhelms, overwrites, previewers, silverware, silverweed, superwaves, superwives, viewership, werewolves, whatsoever, whensoever, whomsoever, wolverines.