Antonyms for swerve
swɜrvswerve

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1. swerve

   To fluctuate (Latin fluctus, a wave) is to move like a wave with alternate rise and fall. A pendulum oscillates; waves fluctuate or undulate; a light or a flame wavers; a frightened steed swerves from his course; a tool or weapon swerves from the mark or line; the temperature varies; the wind veers when it suddenly changes its direction. That which veers may steadily hold the new direction; that which oscillates, fluctuates, undulates, or wavers returns upon its way. As regards mental states, he who hesitates sticks (Latin hærere) on the verge of decision; he who wavers does not stick to a decision; he who vacillates decides now one way, and now another; one vacillates between contrasted decisions or actions; he may waver between decision and indecision, or between action and inaction. Persons hesitate, vacillate, waver; feelings fluctuate or vary. Compare SHAKE.

   Antonyms:
   abide, adhere, hold fast, persist, stand fast, stay, stick

   Synonyms:
   fluctuate, hesitate, oscillate, undulate, vacillate, vary, veer, waver

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1. swerve

   Antonyms:
   continue, disincline

   Synonyms:
   deviate, diverge, stray, wander, divaricate, bend, incline, trend

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1. • Turn

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1. swerve, swerving, veeringnoun

   the act of turning aside suddenly

   Synonyms:
   swerving, veering, yaw

2. yaw, swerveverb

   an erratic deflection from an intended course

   Synonyms:
   veering, yaw, swerving

3. swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutverb

   turn sharply; change direction abruptly

   "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

   Synonyms:
   foreshorten, veer, bring down, wind, turn off, edit out, arch, twist, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, kink, cut, rationalize, trim back, trim, ignore, shorten, crook, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, arc, contract, burn, dilute, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, disregard, tailor, cut off, turn out, snub, slue, slide, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, curl, slip, skid

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1. swerveverb

   Synonyms:
   deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside

How to use swerve in a sentence?

1. Mary Webb:

   If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

2. Thomas Tusser:

   For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.

3. Later Froome:

   I lost my balance a little bit and swerved to the right. Aru happened to be on my right and he had to swerve as well. Any suggestion that it was on purpose is just crazy.

4. Kevin Costello:

   Two detectives opined that this was an intentional act, that the vehicle seemedto swerve intoindividuals, actually at one point tried to avoid other vehicles, i have not seenanything like this in my very long career. Itseems to be a very strong case for the state.

5. Eric Sanders:

   It’s an excellent charge. It’s going to stick in court, you cannot run bikes off the road. You cannot swerve toward them. You definitely cannot hit them and get away with it.

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