swarve

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UK/swɔːv/US/swɔɹv/

verb

To swerve.

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Meanings

verbswarve (third-person singular simple present swarves, present participle swarving, simple past and past participle swarved)

present singular third person swarves · participle present swarving · participle past swarved · past swarved

  1. UKdialectalobsoleteTo swerve.

    I holde it meet that there were onelye sewerties taken of them , and one bounde for another , wherbye , if anye shall swarve , his sewerties shall for safegarde of ther bandes bringe hyme in , or seeke to serve upon him

    1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC
  2. UKdialectalobsoleteTo climb.

    Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.

    1571, Edwards, Damon and Pythias

Origin

See swerve.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with swarve

wharve
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Anagrams

swaver
Cite this entry
APA

swarve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swarve

MLA

“swarve.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swarve. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “swarve,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swarve.

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