swerve

verb · nounA2

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verb

V_es/s

swerves

V_ing/Gerund

swerving

V_ed/pp

swervedswarve

1.
(archaic)To stray; to wander; to rove.
2.
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
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.
To bend; to incline; to give way.
5.
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
6.
To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
7.
Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
8.
To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
9.
(slang, transitive)To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
If I see that type o' muthafucka in the club I just swerve him.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

swervesswarve

1.
(countable, uncountable)A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A deviation from duty or custom.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”).
Đồng nghĩa: drift

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drift

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overswerveswerveless swerverswervyunswerved swarf

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (to rub off; wipe; mop), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (to turn; wipe; sweep). Cognate with swerve, zwerven, swarven, Swedish dialectal svärva (to wipe), Icelandic sverfa (to file).