From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[swerve (disambiguation)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [fy], [nl],
[nds], Swedish dialectal [sv], Icelandic [is].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To stray ; to wander; to rove .
2. * {{ RQ:Sidney Arcadia | | 216 | year=1593
|passage=A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did
SWERVE.}}
1. To go out of a straight line; to deflect .
2. * [24]
3. 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 .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1785 | title=The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
|passage=I SWERVE not from thy commandments.}}
1. * {{ RQ:Clarendon History
|passage=They SWERVE from the strict letter of the law.}}
1. * [chapter=A Standing Revelation, the Best Means of Conviction. A Sermon Preach'd before Her Majesty, at St. James's Chapel, on Sunday, October 28. 1705, being the Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude.]
2. To bend ; to incline ; to give way .
3. * [book=VI]
4. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1692 | author=w:John Dryden | title=Amaryllis
|passage=The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I SWERVED.}}
1. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
2. Of a projectile , to travel in a curved line
3. * [en]
4. To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1869 | author=Leo Tolstoy | title=War & Peace | section=Part 10, Chapter 39
|passage=The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its
onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could
not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help
SWERVING.}}
1. [en] To go out of one's way to avoid ; to snub .
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to stray]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
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[to go out of a straight line]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Rarotongan: [rar]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
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[to wander from a line, rule or duty]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Russian: [ru] (от правил), [ru] (закон)
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[to bend]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
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[to climb or move upward]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
[to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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[checktrans-top]
- Ewe: [ee]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
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*** Noun
[~]
1. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1990 | journal=American Motorcyclist | volume=44 | issue=7 | page=11
|passage=The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it
in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I
could execute a SWERVE to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it
previously took.}}
1. A deviation from duty or custom.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1874 | author=William Edwin Boardman | title=Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston | page=56
|passage=[...] indubitable evidence of a SWERVE from the principle of the
work.}}
1. [en] [en] .
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[sudden movement out of a straight line]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Colombia]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Middle English
*** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]