Crossword-Solution: SWERVE 6 letters, 72 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Swerve	v. i.	To stray; to wander; to rope.
Swerve	v. i.	To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
Swerve	v. i.	To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
Swerve	v. i.	To bend; to incline.
Swerve	v. i.	To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
Swerve	v. t.	To turn aside.

We have 72 clues for the answer “SWERVE”

Clue	Answers
The car cut to the left at the intersection	1 answer
Abrupt change of course	1 answer
An abrupt change of course	1 answer
Avoid a collision, in a way	1 answer
Avoid a pothole	1 answer
Avoid a pothole, maybe	1 answer
Avoid an accident	1 answer
Avoid while driving	1 answer
Dodge on the street	1 answer
Leave skid marks, maybe	1 answer
Narrowly avoid a banana peel in Mario Kart, perhaps	1 answer
One way to avoid a crash	1 answer
One way to avoid an accident	1 answer
Steer to avoid something	1 answer
Sudden deviation from straight course	1 answer
Avoid a collision at the last second, say	1 answer
The motorbike veered to the right	1 answer
Try not to have an accident, say	1 answer
Try to avoid a collision	1 answer
Try to avoid a collision, in a way	1 answer
Try to avoid hitting	1 answer
Turn aside abruptly	1 answer
Turn aside from a straight line.	1 answer
Turn aside suddenly	1 answer
Turn sharply and suddenly	1 answer
Weave on the road	1 answer
What Jesus will probably do if you let him take the wheel	1 answer
the act of turning aside suddenly	1 answer
turn aside from a course sharply or suddenly	1 answer
Suddenly move to one side	1 answer
SLIP out of course	2 answers
Swing off course.	2 answers
Take a sudden turn	2 answers
Do some weaving	2 answers
Try to avoid an accident, maybe	2 answers
Avoid a pothole, say	2 answers
Veer suddenly	2 answers
Deviate from a path	3 answers
Change course suddenly	3 answers
Veer sharply	3 answers
Suddenly change direction	3 answers
Sudden turn	3 answers
Turn suddenly	4 answers
Turn abruptly	4 answers
VEER off	5 answers
Turn sharply	6 answers
Sharp turn	8 answers
ABRUPTLY CUT	10 answers
ABRUPTLY TURN	10 answers
BREAK ABRUPTLY	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERTA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble SWERVE 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing WE 6-letter words containing VE 6-letter words with S and W

Sentences with SWERVE (5)

Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve, Since Reason not impossibly may meet Some specious object by the Foe subornd, And fall into deception unaware, Not keeping strictest watch, as she was warnd.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Yet ’tis no easy matter to discern The temper of a man, his mind and will, Till he be proved by exercise of power; And in my case, if one who reigns supreme Swerve from the highest policy, tongue-tied By fear of consequence, that man I hold, And ever held, the basest of the base.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

The former—while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart—has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer’s own choosing or creation.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Bias is literally a weight fixed on one side of a ball used in bowling, and causing it to swerve from a straight course.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Did they quail, those steeds of the squadrons light, Did they flinch from the battle's roar, When they burst on the guns of the Muscovite, By the echoing Black Sea shore? On! on! to the cannon's mouth they stride, With never a swerve nor a shy, Oh! the minutes of yonder maddening ride, Long years of pleasure outvie! No slave, but a comrade staunch, in this, Is the horse, for he takes his share, Not in peril alone, but in feverish bliss, And in longing to do and dare.

Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008

Quotes with SWERVE (3)

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If I were a seagull I wouldn't have to stick around If people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream. a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my own If I don't

Caroline B. Cooney Losing Christina Collection

you are the builder of your future, the creator of your destiny. Therefore, do not swerve from the path of truth........

Tanu Reshma B Singh

Where this answer appears

Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 80 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).