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swerveverb to depart abruptly from a straight line or coursethe car swerved sharply to avoid the squirrel in the road break, cut, sheer, veer, yaw, zag, zig skew, slew(also slue)arc, arch, bend, bow, crook, curve, hook, round, sweep, wheelabout-face, pivotcircle, coil, curl, loop, spiralturn, twist, windweave, zigzagdeviate, stray, wander, waver straighten to turn away from a straight line or coursethe bike path gently swerves to the right arc, arch, bend, bow, crook, curve, fall off, hook, round, sweep, trend, wheel circle, coil, curlicue, curl, loop, spiralturn, twist, winddeviate, veer straighten to cause to turn away from a straight linea dog dashed out in front of me and made me swerve my bike to one side of the bike path arch, bend, bow, crook, curve, hook arc, roundincurvate, incurve, inflect, reflectdeflect, divertentwine, kink, swirl, turn, twine, twist, veer, warpcoil, curl, enroll(also enrol), loop, spiraldent, dimplemeander, wave, weave, winddecline, incline, slope straighten, unbend, uncurl to change one's course or directionthe hurricane had been following the coastline before it swerved and headed inland detour, deviate, diverge, sheer, swing, turn, turn off, veer, wheel tack, zigzagdouble (back), turn back swerve, veer, deviate, depart, digress, diverge mean to turn aside from a straight course.swerve may suggest a physical, mental, or moral turning away from a given course, often with abruptness.swerved to avoid hitting the dog veer implies a major change in direction.at that point the path veers to the right deviate implies a turning from a customary or prescribed course.never deviated from her daily routine depart suggests a deviation from a traditional or conventional course or type.occasionally departs from his own guidelines digress applies to a departing from the subject of one's discourse.a professor prone to digress diverge may equal depart but usually suggests a branching of a main path into two or more leading in different directions.after school their paths diverged in the 14th century |