Usually means: Changed direction suddenly to avoid.
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  1. swerved: Merriam-Webster
  2. swerved: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. swerved: Wordnik
  5. swerved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swerved: Wiktionary
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  8. swerved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Swerved: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Swerved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Swerved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. swerved: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (swerve)

verb:  (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
verb:  To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
verb:  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.
verb:  To bend; to incline; to give way.
verb:  To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
verb:  To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
verb:  Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
verb:  To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
noun:  A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
noun:  A deviation from duty or custom.
noun:  (cricket) Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”)
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