swerve

Other forms of swerve

plural

swerves·

past tense

swerved·

present participle

swerving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swerve

What does swerve mean?

swerve means "the act of turning aside suddenly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swerve?

swerve has 1 syllable: swerve. In IPA it is /ˈswɝv/.

What is another word for swerve?

Close synonyms include swerving, veering, yaw, sheer, curve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swerve a common word?

swerve is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.