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Noun swerving has 1 sense

• swerving(n = noun.act) swerve, veering - the act of turning aside suddenly; Array
is a kind of turn, turning
Derived form verb swerve₁

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swerving

aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, bend, bias, branching off, circuitous, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departing, departure, desultory, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, hairpin, indirect, indirection, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, obliquity, out-of-the-way, pererration, planetary, rambling, roving, serpentine, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, snaky, stray, straying, sweep, swerve, swinging, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisting, undirected, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, wandering, warp, winding, yaw, zigzag

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Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

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