0 past simple and past participle of swerve --
1 to change direction, especially suddenly: --
He was looking out of the nearside passenger window when he became aware that the car had swerved sideways and was moving towards a tree.
He then put on his brakes and swerved to the right.
Where that has happened, local authorities in many cases have swerved away, and consequently the public interest has not been served.
We have not swerved one inch or one iota from them, nor shall we do so.
We never swerved from that position to the last.
Liberalism was his creed, and he never swerved from it.
At the last moment the coach driver swerved into the path of an on-coming lorry and collided with it.
He swerved to avoid it and struck the milk barrow.
