veer
[verb]
Synonyms: swerve, change course, change direction, sheer, shift, turn

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Related Words: depart, deviate, digress, diverge, angle off, bear off, twist, pivot, turn, wheel

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

veer /vɪə $ vɪr/ verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: virer]

1. to change direction
veer off
A tanker driver died when his lorry veered off the motorway.
The plane veered off course.
Follow the path and veer left after 400m.
The wind was veering north.

2. if opinions, ideas, attitudes etc veer in a particular direction, they gradually change and become quite different:
This latest proposal appears to veer in the direction of Democratic ideals.
The conversation veered back to politics.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

veer
verb
ADV. sharply, violently, wildly The ship veered round wildly in the rough sea.
(to the) left, (to the) right | away, round The plane veered away to the left.
PREP. between (figurative) He veered between calm acceptance and hysterical accusations.
from (figurative) The play veers from loopy comedy to serious moralizing.
off The car veered off the road.
to The path veers sharply to the right.
towards He veered left towards them.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲