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verb-intransitive. To turn aside from a course, direction, or purpose; swerve: "a sequence of adventures that veered between tragedy and bleak farce” ( Anthony Haden-Guest). See Synonyms at swerve.

verb-intransitive. To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.

verb-intransitive. Nautical To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.

v. To alter the direction of; turn: veered the car sharply to the left.

v. Nautical To change the course of (a ship) by turning the stern windward.

n. A change in direction; a swerve.

v. Nautical To let out or release (a line or an anchor train).

n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

v. To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve

v. to change direction into the wind; to wear ship

v. to turn

verb-intransitive. To change direction; to turn; to shift.

v. To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear.

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.

To turn round; vary; be otherwise minded: said of persons, feelings, intentions, etc. See also veering.

To turn; shift.

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.

v. shift to a clockwise direction

v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly

"The images, which occupy dozens of amorphous panels, veer from the sweetly sentimental — the cartoon bunnies and kittens that fill his wife Whitney Ward's bedtime thoughts — to nightmarish visions grotesque enough to evoke both 1950s EC Comics and 15th-century Hieronymous Bosch."

to veer out   

veered    veering    veers   

changeover    switch    shift   

to veer and haul    to veer away    to veer out   

veered    veering   

turn    shift    wear    deviate    deviation   

Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir