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Veer   /vɪr/   Listen
Veer

verb
(past & past part. veered; pres. part. veering)
1.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
2.
Shift to a clockwise direction.



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"Veer" Quotes from Famous Books



... captain had referred was not yet in a blaze, but the smoke was curling from every opening, showing that the fire was making rapid headway in that direction. Presently came a change in the wind, causing the smoke to veer around. ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... do with those variants of the wild goose's favourite letter. Quite likely the sight of Gadabout, fluttering her flags down there in Eppes Creek, made those wise old gander leaders veer in a way somewhat disconcerting to ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... her honour with dismay. The easy confidence which she had brought from New Zealand had quite disappeared, thanks to incessant snubbing; she was apt now to veer ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... the boat exclaimed, 'That is the island!' which, at the time, they supposed to be long out of sight, as the boat appeared to be going rapidly through the water; this naturally led to a conjecture that a strong current set to the northward and eastward. The wind still continued to veer about, and at one time they thought that they must have passed the ship, but the night was too dark to enable them to discern anything clearly many yards beyond ...
— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly
... to elect another patron against hurricanes, which are called in those parts vagios, and by the Portuguese tufones. [42] They are furious winds which, springing up ordinarily in the north, veer toward the west and south, and move around the compass in the space of twenty ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XII, 1601-1604 • Edited by Blair and Robertson


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