swerve
verb
[ swəːv ]
• change or cause to change direction abruptly.
• "a lorry swerved across her path"
Similar:
veer,
change direction,
go off course,
deviate,
skew,
diverge,
sheer,
curve,
twist,
weave,
zigzag,
turn aside,
branch off,
sidetrack,
tack,
divagate,
swerve
noun
• an abrupt change of direction.
• "do not make sudden swerves, particularly around parked vehicles"
Origin:
Old English sweorfan ‘depart, leave, turn aside’, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch swerven ‘to stray’.
