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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
swerve/swɜːv/

▶verb abruptly diverge or cause to diverge from a straight course. ▶noun such a change of course.

■ a tendency to swerve imparted to a ball.

– derivatives
swerver noun.

– origin OE sweorfan ‘depart, leave, turn aside’, of Gmc origin.

'swerve' also found in these Oxford entries:

massé - outswinger - sheer - wry

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