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Move to avoid wife during ball at court
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swerve
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 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. 5 To climb ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1741, from swerve (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Swerve is the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes . Swerve is always depicted as an Autobot land vehicle with red color. Up until 2008, there has never been a Transformer named Swerve with his own original mold - he ...
Usage examples of swerve.
We had swerved, close in, around the second headland, and were tearing across the mouth of the bay toward Agios Georgios.
One of the fat ugly Albacore sharks saw me as I slid down the dark cliff face, and he swerved towards me.
Only when collision seemed inevitable did the German pilot lose his nerve and swerve, and Biggies whirled round on his tail in the lightning right-hand turn for which the Camel was famous.
He swerved away from the Beaters, one of whom had hit the Bludger toward him before he realized what Harry had done, and, Snitch in hand, Harry ducked the metal sphere once again before hovering near the middle of the field, holding up the Snitch with a triumphant grin.
Kamahl continued to run, keeping an eye on Brue and swerving back and forth to keep the mage guessing where he was headed.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought, Unchecks Its clock-like laws.
She answered that happiness could not be obtained by offending every moral law, and by swerving from our duties.
Raymond was to inspire them with his beneficial will, and the mechanism of society, once systematised according to faultless rules, would never again swerve into disorder.
Yama charged at the doctor then, and one of the flock of machines which floated in the big, airy room swerved and clipped him on the side of the head.
Only the edge of the storm had touched the fumarole field before it had swerved, leaving them unscathed.
John the gerbil, free from his hideaway, ran across the sofa down to the floor and swerved between their legs.
As the stranger moved on toward the unlighted swerve, Hurd slipped out of the doorway and followed him.
The jalopy swerved around a corner through a wind that smelled of turpentine and whitewash.
With a clownish skip of his black, scaly feet, and a show-offish swerve of his dusty ebon wings, Kaw took to the air once more.
VooDoo got outside, Kyre helplessly watched him run across the street, cars skidding and swerving to avoid the raving lunatic wailing and running with his arms flailing.