0 past simple and past participle of swerve
1 to change direction, especially suddenly:
Every now and then the atoms just swerved.
This motorist braked, swerved, skidded and finished up broadside on across the road.
It swerved from side to side and hit one vehicle in the course of the pursuit.
If a pet dog ran into the street and a cyclist swerved, there might be some reasonable apprehension that that cyclist might be injured.
One could never imagine his being swerved from what he thought to be right by any personal consideration or any private prejudice.
That was the reason given and that was a reason from which the originators have never swerved.
Perhaps due to the weight, when the brakes of the lorry were put on the trailer swerved round and went into a form of skidding.
He swerved to avoid it and struck the milk barrow.
