Difference between Swerve and Veer

SWERVE vs VEER: NOUN

To bend; to incline.
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.
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
To stray; to wander; to rope.

To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.
To deviate from a purpose, behavior, or previous pattern: : swerve.
To vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.
To change direction; to turn; to shift.
To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.
To turn aside from a course or established direction; swerve.
To alter the direction of; turn.

To turn aside suddenly or quickly; turn suddenly aside from the direct course or aim: used of both physical and moral action.
To wander; rove; stray; roam; ramble.
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
To turn aside; cause to change in course.
Change direction abruptly
Turn sharply
(transitive; intransitive verb) To turn aside or be turned aside from a straight path or established pattern.

Change direction abruptly
Turn sharply
To turn; specifically, to alter the course of a ship, by turning her head round away from the wind; wear.
To shift or change direction: as, the wind veers to the north; specifically, in meteorology, with respect to the wind, to shift in the same direction as the course of the sun—as, in the northern hemisphere, from east by way of south to west.
Nautical, to change the course of by turning the stern to windward; lay on a different tack by turning the vessel's head away from the wind; wear: as, to veer ship.
To turn; shift.
To turn round; vary; be otherwise minded: said of persons, feelings, intentions, etc. See also veering.

Sideswipe, Careen, Oncoming, Avert, Avoid, Skew, Slew, Slue, Sheer, Trend, Cut, Yaw, Curve, Veering, Veer

Turning, Shift, Deflect, Skew, Divert, Bend, Turn, Deviate, Sheer, Slew, Slue, Trend, Cut, Curve, Swerve

Hurtle, Sideswipe, Careen, Oncoming, Avert, Avoid, Skew, Slew, Slue, Sheer, Trend, Cut, Curve, Veering, Veer

Turning, Shift, Deflect, Skew, Divert, Bend, Turn, Deviate, Sheer, Slew, Slue, Trend, Cut, Curve, Swerve

Veer LJ, Dai H, Hart AA, et al.
Veer AJ, Francke AL, Buijse R, Friele RD.
Carol Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer, eds.
So, you need to veer off that course.
Vander Veer, came from along the Raritan river.
Veer Rajender, which I have now before me.
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Peter van der Veer Transnational Religion; Hindu and Muslim Movements PETER VAN DER VEER Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Utrecht.
Japan and Singapore tended to veer tight whereas cultures like Greece and Brazil veer more loose.
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