Synonyms for Swerving

Synonyms for "swerving" (107 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Noun(5 words)

veeringalter coursecapricious curving deflection

aberrancy aberrant aberration aberrative bend biasbranching offcircuitous circuitousness corner crook curve declination departing departure desultory detour

Strong matches (32)

Related words (53)

excursion excursive excursus exorbitation gnominious hairpin indirect indirection labyrinthine mazy meandering obliquityout-of-the-waypererration planetary rambling roving serpentine sheer shift

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shiftingshifting courseshifting pathskew slant snaky stray straying sweep swerve swinging tack turn turning twist twisting undirected vagrant variation veer veering wandering warp winding yaw zigzag

Noun(7 words)

pivot reconsider swerveturn asideunpredictable veer zigzagging

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries

behavior communication deviation discourse motion movement pattern turn turning

More specific

18 entries

capricious decisionscourse alterationcurvilinear deviationcurvingdiscourse digressionerratic conductethical digressionlateral deviationlateral driftleft swervingobjective driftpolicy driftright swervingroute deviationsharp turnunpredictable conduct

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

16 entries

abrupt swerveerratic swervinglane swervinglateral deviationsharp swervesudden swervesudden swervingswerve intoswerving maneuverswerving motionswerving trajectoryswerving vehicletrajectory deviationveering trajectoryvehicle swervingzigzagging path

Inflections

5 entries

swerved swerves swervier swerviest swervings

Derivations

3 entries

swerve swerved swerver

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The car kept swerving from lane to lane.

Source: tatoeba (2300124)

Sami was driving and swerving all over the road.

Source: tatoeba (7264364)

The car in front of us was swerving all over the road.

Source: tatoeba (9188595)

The vehicle was swerving all over the road.

Source: tatoeba (11330839)

Showing 4 of 7 available sentences.

Swerving