Crossword clues for swerving
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swerve \Swerve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swerved; p. pr. & vb. n. Swerving.] [OE. swerven, AS. sweorfan to wipe off, to file, to polish; akin to OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swa['i]rban (in comp.) to wipe, and perhaps to E. swarm. Cf. Swarm.]
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To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.]
A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
--Sir P. Sidney. To go out of a straight line; to deflect. ``The point [of the sword] swerved.''
--Sir P. Sidney.-
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.
I swerve not from thy commandments.
--Bk. of Com. Prayer.They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
--Clarendon.Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion.
--Atterbury. To bend; to incline. ``The battle swerved.''
--Milton.-
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. An unpredictable change of direction. vb. (present participle of swerve English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "swerving".
No doubt I'd find a gray or ebony version of my girlfriend inside, swathed in the robes of a virtuality chador, laboring to fulfill some academic requirement in her latest major maybe Bantu Linguistics or Chinese Military History -- I couldn't follow the way her interests kept swerving, like a hundred million other permanent students on this continent alone.
I'm torn between zooming toward the front lines or swerving to that tree-lined oasis, at the border.
Instinct urged me to turn the wheel, frantically swerving to flee whatever weapon he was bringing to bear!
The old man and the nondescript gray car in which he sat was blown apart, sending the Citroën swerving to the left into the ancient post-and-rail fence that bordered the sunken parking lot on the side of the inn.
Their hoofs threw up lumps of turf as they spun round the markers at the end of the course and came back at full gallop with the light chariot bouncing and swerving behind them.
At full gallop they flew into the field of lava rock with the chariot bounding and swerving behind them.
He was in such distress that he almost ran full tilt into the back of Taita's chariot as it came to an abrupt swerving halt across the track ahead of them.
The first target came up fast, and Nefer braced himself on the bouncing swerving footplate.
Like a flock of birds swerving in full flight or a shoal of fish avoiding the attacking barracuda, they turned as though possessed of a single controlling mind, and raced away over the plain, back the way they had come.
The first rank of Naja's charge was shot down, and as the horses fell the chariots piled up over their carcasses, swerving out of control into the stone walls on either hand, or capsizing and rolling.
Rourke shouted, not looking at her, swerving to avoid an overturned green dumpster spilling out from the sidewalk backing the underground entrances to buildings and restaurants.
As if it had been waiting for him, a blast of wind came swerving around the corner of the cottage and numbed his face.
And then, miraculously, they were swerving away from it, away from the roaring, backing along the road.
A jeep stuffed with policemen came swerving past, but she hardly noticed.
New American and European cars competed with trucks and rattling buses for the two lanes flowing east, the cars swerving in and out of traffic with seemingly divine protection.