Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - swerve

(swerves, swerving, swerved) If a vehicle or other moving thing swerves or if you swerve it, it suddenly changes direction, often in order to avoid hitting something. Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies... Her car swerved off the road into a 6ft high brick wall... Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard. VERB: V, V prep/adv, V n • Swerve is also a noun. He swung the car to the left and that swerve saved Malone’s life. N-COUNT