swerved

verb

past tense of swerve
1
as in veered
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course the car swerved sharply to avoid the squirrel in the road

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2
as in curved
to turn away from a straight line or course the bike path gently swerves to the right

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3
as in arched
to cause to turn away from a straight line a dog dashed out in front of me and made me swerve my bike to one side of the bike path

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4
as in deviated
to change one's course or direction the hurricane had been following the coastline before it swerved and headed inland

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Recent Examples of swerved The 2008 Accord swerved to the left, then lost control and collided with the other Accord before rolling over, the crash log states. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026 State police said the trooper swerved partially into the median to avoid a crash and lost control of the Ford Interceptor. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026 Arlington police are investigating the death of a 42-year-old man after his car swerved off the road and ended up in a ditch Sunday afternoon. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Aug. 2026 Bands of vigilantes went after the animals with cricket bats or swerved deliberately to run them over, but the toads continued their relentless spread. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 Just days before her junior year of high school, the Pennsylvania native was driving to work after getting just two hours of sleep when her car swerved on wet grass and slammed into a tree. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026 Saar began her career as a social worker but eventually swerved toward design. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 July 2026 Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said Bohm swerved onto a shoulder of PCH and slammed into three vehicles parked alongside on the roadway. — City News Service, Daily News, 27 July 2026 According to the company, the Waymo car was traveling east at 27 mph on Venice Boulevard when a blue sedan going 47-50 mph hit a pedestrian outside a crosswalk and then swerved into the opposite traffic lane, striking the self-driving car. — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swerved
  1. veered
  2. curved
  3. arched
  4. deviated
  5. hooked
  6. swung
  7. bowed
  8. turned
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  • However, even on longer drives with the second and third units, the Bills generally veered toward keeping a pass-rushing pair in the game for six-plus snaps at a time.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, in their wake, the league veered far in the other direction, taking the finesse out of the game and turning on-court play into a street fight, with officials unable or unwilling to get their arms round the physicality.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of veered
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  • In reality, the well may be drilled nearly 1 mile deep, and then curved by turning roughly 4 degrees every 100 feet.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The frontier is curved, as existing resources are less efficient for some outputs than others.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of curved
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  • Berry arched backward as the setting sun streamed through the material, with palm trees, an infinity pool and the ocean visible beyond the shaded retreat.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The opening installation unfolds in a cornucopia of mezzanines, double-height caverns, walkways, and arched windows that give on to the street.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
Definition of arched
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  • The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this.
    — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of deviated
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  • That ambiguity immediately hooked Hades Films after Hertzberg and Zappa saw Nybroe and King’s proof of concept.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Some more images show Kidman, Bullock, 62, King, 26, and Williams, 29, wearing flowing gowns while hooked onto wires, seemingly filming a scene that involves flying, in front of a blue screen.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of hooked
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  • The inning should have been over after Bo Bichette swung on a bouncing pitch that went back to the backstop, but Washington catcher Keibert Ruiz threw the ball past first base, and Bichette was safe.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But this game’s hinges swung the other way when the Padres turned things around against Gavin Williams and Michael King turned things around against the Guardians.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of swung
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  • First-time filmmaker Colette Ghunim´s nuanced and intimate portrait of her Mexican/Palestinian roots, ‘Traces of Home,’ exec produced by Melissa Barrera and John Leguizamo, bowed at DOC NYC.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The late Queen’s youngest grandchild, who wore a dark suit for the event, took a position at the side of Elizabeth’s coffin and stood with his head bowed as mourners passed.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of bowed
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  • The offer of a trial from Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson that eventually turned into a short-term contract until January 2025 proved the merits of all that hard work.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Crews are also using steam to remove blotches of chewing gum, which have turned black over time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of turned

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