Saturday, January 7, 2017

VEER

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

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jet Airways flight veers off runway

PRONOUNCE:
veer - विर / वीर

LINK: VEER

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