Usually means: Change direction suddenly; turn aside.
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  1. veer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. veer: Merriam-Webster
  3. veer, veer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. veer, veer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. veer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. veer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Veer, veer: Wordnik
  8. veer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. veer: Wiktionary
  10. veer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. veer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. veer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. veer: Dictionary.com
  14. veer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. veer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Veer (disambiguation), Veer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Veer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. veer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. veer: Rhymezone
  20. veer, veer (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. veer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. veer: FreeDictionary.org
  23. veer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. veer: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. veer: Legal dictionary

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  1. veer: Encyclopedia

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  1. VEER: Acronym Finder
  2. veer: Idioms

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  1. veer: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Veer: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
noun:  A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
verb:  (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
verb:  (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
verb:  (transitive) To turn.

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