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Grammar : Verb
Spell : swurv
Phonetic Transcription : swɜrv


Definition of swerve

Origin :
  • early 13c., "to depart, make off;" early 14c., "to turn aside, deviate from a straight course," probably from Old English sweorfan "to rub, scour, file" (but sense development is difficult to trace), from Proto-Germanic *swerbanan (cf Old Norse sverfa "to scour, file," Old Saxon swebran "to wipe off"), from PIE root *swerbh-. Cognate words in other Germanic languages (cf. Old Frisian swerva "to creep," Middle Dutch swerven "to rove, stray") suggests the sense of "go off, turn aside" may have existed in Old English, though unrecorded. Related: Swerved; swerving.
  • verb turn aside, often to avoid collision
Example sentences :
  • In a swerve he almost stopped, every muscle of his big body trembling in affright.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • It has fixed rules which are the props of order, and will not swerve or bend in extreme cases.
  • Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
  • The Arcadians did not swerve: in compact order they waited impassively.
  • Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
  • And even now it was held to be undignified to swerve from that doctrine.
  • Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
  • He would not swerve from the line of duty which he had marked out.
  • Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
  • Why should you struggle and get hurt, if you can lower your head and swerve, and not lose a feather?
  • Extract from : « Jackanapes » by Juliana Horatio Ewing
  • He knew his duty, and did not swerve one hair from the line it prompted.
  • Extract from : « Albert Gallatin » by John Austin Stevens
  • Her path had been taken, and nothing now could make her swerve from it.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 » by Various
  • Nothing could swerve him from honesty or the performance of his task.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 » by Various
  • Nature's laws are inflexible and swerve not for any human wish.
  • Extract from : « Mizora: A Prophecy » by Mary E. Bradley

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