WORD: VEER
MEANING:
1.
a. To turn aside from a course or established direction; swerve: veered to the left to avoid a pothole.
b. To deviate from a purpose, behavior, or previous pattern: "a sequence of adventures that veered between tragedy and bleak farce" (Anthony Haden-Guest). See Synonyms at swerve.
2. To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.
3. Nautical To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.
4.turns, swings, bends
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Packed bus veers off road in Bangladesh, killing 24
2. The truck veered off the road
PRONOUNCE:
veer - विर / वीर
LINK: VEER
MEANING:
1.
a. To turn aside from a course or established direction; swerve: veered to the left to avoid a pothole.
b. To deviate from a purpose, behavior, or previous pattern: "a sequence of adventures that veered between tragedy and bleak farce" (Anthony Haden-Guest). See Synonyms at swerve.
2. To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.
3. Nautical To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.
4.turns, swings, bends
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Packed bus veers off road in Bangladesh, killing 24
2. The truck veered off the road
PRONOUNCE:
veer - विर / वीर
LINK: VEER
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