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Answer for the clue "Deviated from a course ", 7 letters:
sheered

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vb. (en-past of: sheer )

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Sheer \Sheer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sheered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheering .] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See Shear .] To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse ...

Usage examples of sheered.

Beneath his windy presence, the cliff sheered away, the vertical drop hemmed by frost-broken stone left heaped by the force of past slides.