Swerve: Definition and part of speech

Swerve

  1. v. t. To turn aside.
  2. v. i. To stray; to wander; to rope.
  3. v. i. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  4. 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.
  5. v. i. To bend; to incline.
  6. v. i. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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