Swerve
Swerve verb - To depart abruptly from a straight line or course.
Usage example: the car swerved sharply to avoid the squirrel in the road
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Synonyms for Swerve
Wheel and swerve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wheel" instead a verb "Swerve".
Wheel
Wheel verb - To change the course or direction of (something).
Usage example: wheeled the bike around sharply to see what had fallen off
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Terry-Thomas's Jeep, its front end damaged by an off-road swerve, rides more and more erratically until it goes into a tunnel with a large smash - a single wheel rolls out the other end, followed by the rest of the Jeep that finally rolls over and dies.
Source: Free Wheel - In many TV shows and films, however, characters are often shown moving the steering wheel frequently and rapidly to either side, even when not engaged in a heated car chase, behavior which, in practice, would cause the vehicle to swerve all over the road in a zigzag pattern.
Source: Hollywood Steering
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Wheel and Swerve. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/swerve/wheel
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Wheel or Swerve. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/swerve/wheel.
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