Definition of Swerves

1. Verb. (third-person singular of swerve) ¹

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Definition of Swerves

1. swerve [v] - See also: swerve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swerves

swelts
swept
swept path
swept paths
sweptback
sweptwing
sweptwings
swerf
swerfed
swerfing
swerfs
swerve
swerved
swerver
swervers
swerves (current term)
swerving
swervingly
swervings
sweven
swevens
swey
sweyed
sweying
sweys
swidden
swiddens
swies
swift
swift boat

Literary usage of Swerves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Who so much more our hate and scourge deserves, As from the rule of right he wider swerves. Of course the germ of the idea may be found in the almost ..."

2. A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament by Edward Robinson (1836)
"Whatever swerves from the true point, comes short of it, goes beyond it, like the Engl. syllable mis-, ie wrongly, falsely, ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Who so much more our hate and scourge deserves, As from the rule of right he wider swerves. Of course the germ of the idea may be found in the almost ..."

4. A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament by Edward Robinson (1836)
"Whatever swerves from the true point, comes short of it, goes beyond it, like the Engl. syllable mis-, ie wrongly, falsely, ..."

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