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"5": "to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside"
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"4": "to wander; roam; swerve"
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"2": "zwerven",
"3": "",
"4": "to wander; stray; roam"
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"3": "",
"4": "to swerve; wander; riot"
},
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"3": "",
"4": "to wipe"
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"3": "",
"4": "to file"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).",
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"To stray; to wander; to rove."
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"rove",
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"(archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove."
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"roman": "bluždaja",
"sense": "to stray",
"word": "блуждая"
},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to stray",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bluždátʹ",
"sense": "to stray",
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"word": "блужда́ть"
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"To go out of a straight line; to deflect."
],
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[
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "krivvam",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "криввам"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "dévier"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadaxveva",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "გადახვევა"
},
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"roman": "gaxveva",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "გახვევა"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "deviare"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "tataha"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 54 4 1 1 1 1 3 34",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "perori"
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"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
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"word": "zboczyć"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "desviar"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"word": "guinar"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отклоня́ться"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отклони́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 54 4 1 1 1 1 3 34",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svoráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "свора́чивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 54 4 1 1 1 1 3 34",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svernútʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "сверну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 54 4 1 1 1 1 3 34",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "povoráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "повора́чивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 54 4 1 1 1 1 3 34",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "povernútʹ",
"sense": "to go out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поверну́ть"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel",
"text": "I swerve not from thy commandments.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate."
],
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[
"wander",
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],
[
"depart",
"depart"
],
[
"deviate",
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]
],
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"_dis1": "24 16 38 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otklonjavam se",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "отклонявам се"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "zwerven"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 16 38 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "se détourner"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "dévier"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "deviare"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 16 38 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"word": "kotiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 16 38 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"alt": "от правил",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otxodítʹ",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отходи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 16 38 1 1 4 3 2 10",
"alt": "закон",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prestupátʹ",
"sense": "to wander from a line, rule or duty",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "преступа́ть"
}
]
},
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"To bend; to incline; to give way."
],
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"bend",
"bend"
],
[
"incline",
"incline"
],
[
"give way",
"give way"
]
],
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvivam se",
"sense": "to bend",
"word": "извивам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to bend",
"word": "inclinarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgibátʹsja",
"sense": "to bend",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сгиба́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sognútʹsja",
"sense": "to bend",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "согну́ться"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis",
"text": "The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To climb or move upward by winding or turning."
],
"id": "en-swerve-en-verb-dTPeDzIE",
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"climb",
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],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"upward",
"upward"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 10 4 3 60 4 3 6 8",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to climb or move upward",
"word": "arrampicarsi"
}
]
},
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"glosses": [
"To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact."
],
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"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"aside",
"aside"
],
[
"deviate",
"deviate"
]
],
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"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izbjagvam",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "избягвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "ausweichen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "schivare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "scansare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "scapolare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "derapare"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "tataha"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уклоня́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уклони́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "väja"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 6 2 2 71 1 2 9",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact",
"word": "gira"
}
]
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"ref": "2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC",
"text": "Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments",
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"Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line"
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"ref": "1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39",
"text": "The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off."
],
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"drive",
"drive"
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[
"cut off",
"cut off"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "If I see that type o' muthafucka in the club I just swerve him."
}
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"glosses": [
"To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub."
],
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],
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"(transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub."
],
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"ipa": "/swɜːv/",
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"ipa": "/swɝv/",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)v"
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{
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{
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "to wander; roam; swerve"
},
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{
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"2": "zwerven",
"3": "",
"4": "to wander; stray; roam"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "to swerve; wander; riot"
},
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "to wipe"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "sverfa",
"3": "",
"4": "to file"
},
"expansion": "sverfa (“to file”)",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).",
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"tags": [
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}
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"ref": "1990, American Motorcyclist, volume 44, number 7, page 11",
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"2": "zwerven",
"3": "",
"4": "to wander; stray; roam"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "swarven",
"3": "",
"4": "to swerve; wander; riot"
},
"expansion": "Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "svärva",
"3": "",
"4": "to wipe"
},
"expansion": "svärva (“to wipe”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "sverfa",
"3": "",
"4": "to file"
},
"expansion": "sverfa (“to file”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swerves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "swerve (plural swerves)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, American Motorcyclist, volume 44, number 7, page 11",
"text": "The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston, page 56",
"text": "[…] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A deviation from duty or custom."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/swɜːv/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/swɝv/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)v"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-swerve.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c3/En-us-swerve.ogg/En-us-swerve.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/En-us-swerve.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "swarve"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otklonenie",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "отклонение"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "esquive"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schlenker"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ausweichmanöver"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbandata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "deviazione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scarto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sbalzo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scostamento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "guinada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sudden movement out of a straight line",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "volantazo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"swerve (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "swerve"
}
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