Definitions
the act of turning aside suddenly
Word origin
From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).
Used in a sentence
“A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.”
The New Arcadia“with the slipping of the pommel , the point swerved”
The New Arcadia“I swerve not from thy commandments.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Turn suddenly”6 letters
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