Swerved vs Swayed - What's the difference?
swerved | swayed |
(swerve)
To stray; to wander; to rove.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
* Book of Common Prayer
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
To bend; to incline.
* Milton
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
* Dryden
To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 8
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds
, work=BBC
As verbs the difference between swerved and swayed
is that swerved is (swerve) while swayed is (sway).As an adjective swayed is
bent backwards, as in swayback.swerved
English
Verb
(head)swerve
English
Verb
(swerv)- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
- The point [of the sword] swerved .
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
- The battle swerved .
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
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