veer
v.
change direction, swerve, turn about, alter one's course
veering
Noun
1. the act of turning aside suddenly
(synonym) swerve, swerving
(hypernym) turn, turning
(derivation) swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut
veer
Verb
1. turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
(synonym) swerve, sheer, curve, trend, slue, slew, cut
(hypernym) turn
(hyponym) peel off
(derivation) swerve, swerving, veering
2. shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered"
(antonym) back
(hypernym) switch, change over, shift
Veering
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Veer
(a.)
Shifting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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veering
Synonyms and related words:
aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy, meandering, nonuniform, out-of-the-way, patchy, planetary, rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain, undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable, wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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