Definition for Veer:

• [ Fr.] ( Naut.) To let or pay out, as a cable.

Synonyms for Veer:

• n.

  •
  • capitulate,
  • move with the times,
  • revise,
  • renounce,
  • move on,
  • backpedal,
  • see reason/sense,
  • change your mind,
  • adapt.
  •
  • approach,
  • gust,
  • rise,
  • pick up,
  • lash,
  • freshen,
  • drop,
  • get up,
  • catch,
  • correct,
  • err,
  • blow,
  • howl.
  •corner (noun)
  • inter-section,
  • Y's,
  • inter section,
  • inter-sections,
  • v's,
  • cloverleafs,
  • inter sections,
  • Ys.
  •swerve (noun)
  • study at deviate.

• v.

  •bend (verb)
  • angling away,
  • angles away,
  • Incurvating,
  • de-formed,
  • de forms,
  • DE Form,
  • de-forming,
  • de-tour,
  • angles off,
  • angling off,
  • de forming,
  • de toured,
  • de formed,
  • angled away,
  • de-toured,
  • de-forms,
  • de-touring,
  • de-form,
  • de tour,
  • de-tours,
  • de tours,
  • incurvates,
  • de touring,
  • angled off.
  •change (verb)
  • variation,
  • veer.
  •change direction (verb)
  • get around,
  • divagate,
  • be deflected,
  • cut,
  • twist,
  • whirl,
  • wheel,
  • sheer,
  • swivel,
  • bear,
  • make a right,
  • drift,
  • make a left,
  • tack,
  • volte-face.
  •curve (verb)
  • convexing,
  • in curves,
  • convexes,
  • in curving,
  • in-curve,
  • in-curved,
  • in curve,
  • Arcking,
  • in-curving,
  • Arcked,
  • in curved,
  • in-curves.
  •deflect (verb)
  • glancing off,
  • volte-facing,
  • volte faced,
  • glances off,
  • voltefaced,
  • dis perse,
  • volte facing,
  • keeping off,
  • holds off,
  • dis-perse,
  • voltefaces,
  • volte-faced,
  • kept off,
  • keeps off,
  • volteface,
  • voltefacing,
  • glanced off.
  •depart (verb)
  • dis agreed,
  • dis agrees,
  • dis cards,
  • de-part,
  • ex curses,
  • de part,
  • dis-agreed,
  • turns aside,
  • dis agree,
  • de-parts,
  • de-sert,
  • dis agreeing,
  • dis sent,
  • de parting,
  • dis-carding,
  • de sert,
  • dis-cards,
  • de parted,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • excursed,
  • dis carded,
  • dis-agree,
  • dis-sents,
  • dis card,
  • ex-curses,
  • dis-card,
  • ex-cursed,
  • ex cursed,
  • ex-curse,
  • de-parted,
  • dis-agrees,
  • de parts,
  • excursing,
  • ex curse,
  • dis-sent,
  • ex cursing,
  • dis carding,
  • de-parting,
  • dis-carded,
  • ex-cursing,
  • dis sents.
  •deviate (verb)
  • stray,
  • differ,
  • vary.
  •digress (verb)
  • going off a tangent,
  • am diffuse,
  • circumlocuted,
  • gat subject,
  • went on a tangent,
  • is diffuse,
  • gat off point,
  • longs way,
  • gets off the point,
  • go off a tangent,
  • going by way of,
  • get subject,
  • getting off the subject,
  • gat off subject,
  • beat the bush,
  • gotten the point,
  • gotten off the point,
  • wanders away,
  • goes a tangent,
  • went off a tangent,
  • goes off on a tangent,
  • beating about bush,
  • gets subject,
  • gotten point,
  • got off the point,
  • gets sidetracked,
  • got off point,
  • goes off a tangent,
  • beating the bush,
  • going on a tangent,
  • gotten off point,
  • being diffuse,
  • getting off point,
  • gotten off subject,
  • getting off the point,
  • going off on a tangent,
  • longed way,
  • beats the bush,
  • getting point,
  • gets point,
  • beats about the bush,
  • art diffuse,
  • goes on a tangent,
  • goes by way of,
  • gets the subject,
  • circumlocutes,
  • got the point,
  • gets off subject,
  • getting subject,
  • got point,
  • getting the subject,
  • wandering away,
  • got off the subject,
  • gat off the point,
  • getting the point,
  • beats about bush,
  • gets off the subject,
  • went off on a tangent,
  • get the subject,
  • get off subject,
  • are diffuse,
  • gat the subject,
  • gotten subject,
  • get point,
  • beat about bush,
  • got off subject,
  • beating about the bush,
  • gat off the subject,
  • get off point,
  • gotten off the subject,
  • gat the point,
  • got the subject,
  • got sidetracked,
  • getting off subject,
  • went by way of,
  • going a tangent,
  • beat bush,
  • longing way,
  • circumlocuting,
  • gotten sidetracked,
  • was diffuse,
  • go a tangent,
  • gotten the subject,
  • gets the point,
  • got subject,
  • go on a tangent,
  • gat point,
  • beats bush,
  • gat sidetracked,
  • gets off point,
  • wast diffuse,
  • went a tangent,
  • were diffuse,
  • wert diffuse,
  • getting sidetracked,
  • beating bush.
  •dip (verb)
  • dis-appears,
  • re ceded,
  • sub-sides,
  • re-ceding,
  • dropt down,
  • dis appears,
  • sub sides,
  • nose dived,
  • nose dove,
  • re cede,
  • re ceding,
  • dis-appeared,
  • dis appear,
  • sub side,
  • nose diving,
  • re-ached,
  • dis appearing,
  • re-aching,
  • nose dives,
  • nose-dove,
  • nosediving,
  • re-cedes,
  • dis-appear,
  • dis-appearing,
  • re ached,
  • dis appeared,
  • re cedes,
  • de-clines,
  • nosedove,
  • de cline,
  • dropped down,
  • de clines,
  • de-cline,
  • sub sided,
  • re-ceded,
  • drops down,
  • re-cede,
  • re aching,
  • dropping down.
  •diverge (verb)
  • disperse,
  • branch off,
  • split,
  • spread,
  • separate.
  •divert (verb)
  • re-directed,
  • re direct,
  • re directs,
  • re-directing,
  • re-directs,
  • re directing,
  • re-direct,
  • re directed.
  •fluctuate (verb)
  • go up down,
  • went and down,
  • wast undecided,
  • rising and fall,
  • hem haw,
  • being undecided,
  • going and down,
  • yo yoed,
  • ebbs and flow,
  • goes up and down,
  • rising fall,
  • rises and fall,
  • goes up down,
  • is undecided,
  • ebb flow,
  • goes and down,
  • yoyos,
  • am undecided,
  • went up down,
  • was undecided,
  • rises fall,
  • ebbing flow,
  • wert undecided,
  • rise fall,
  • are undecided,
  • art undecided,
  • were undecided,
  • went up and down,
  • yoyoed,
  • rose and fall,
  • yo yos,
  • ebbed and flow,
  • ebbs flow,
  • yo yoing,
  • blow hot cold,
  • going up down,
  • yo-yoed,
  • yo-yoing,
  • ebbing and flow,
  • going up and down,
  • yoyoing,
  • rose fall,
  • go and down,
  • yo yo,
  • ebbed flow.
  •incline (verb)
  • re clines,
  • in cline,
  • in-clines,
  • re-cline,
  • re-clines,
  • in-cline,
  • re cline,
  • in clines.
  •lean (verb)
  • is slanted,
  • re-pose,
  • wast slanted,
  • being slanted,
  • wast off,
  • fastens on,
  • over-hangs,
  • am off,
  • fastened on,
  • re-posing,
  • puts weight on,
  • re sting,
  • was slanted,
  • rests on,
  • are slanted,
  • re-posed,
  • over-hang,
  • over-hanging,
  • putting weight on,
  • am slanted,
  • over hang,
  • wert slanted,
  • over hangs,
  • fastening on,
  • wert off,
  • were off,
  • being off,
  • re-sting,
  • art slanted,
  • was off,
  • is off,
  • re posing,
  • were slanted,
  • rested on,
  • re posed,
  • re pose.
  •pivot (verb)
  • de pending,
  • were contingent,
  • re-lied,
  • wast contingent,
  • are contingent,
  • re lied,
  • being contingent,
  • de-pending,
  • de-pend,
  • re-lying,
  • de-pends,
  • de pend,
  • wert contingent,
  • re lying,
  • was contingent,
  • am contingent,
  • de-pended,
  • de pends,
  • de pended,
  • art contingent,
  • is contingent.
  •refract (verb)
  • re fracted,
  • re-fracted.
  •shift (verb)
  • moves around,
  • turned the corner,
  • dialed back,
  • re locate,
  • moved over,
  • dialing back,
  • switched over,
  • co-oking,
  • turning the corner,
  • re-locating,
  • switching over,
  • re-moves,
  • dis placing,
  • ex changes,
  • dis-placing,
  • moving around,
  • re-calibrates,
  • re-arrange,
  • re-moving,
  • ex changing,
  • dis-place,
  • re-locate,
  • about facing,
  • moving over,
  • re calibrating,
  • re calibrate,
  • turning corner,
  • about face,
  • re positioning,
  • re moved,
  • dialling back,
  • re-positions,
  • re-positioning,
  • turns corner,
  • bottoms out,
  • flip flopping,
  • ex-changing,
  • re positioned,
  • about faced,
  • re arranges,
  • swaps places,
  • dis-located,
  • re locating,
  • co oking,
  • dis locate,
  • re position,
  • flip-flopped,
  • flipflopping,
  • re-calibrate,
  • re-arranged,
  • swapping places,
  • dials back,
  • turned corner,
  • dis locates,
  • dis located,
  • re-calibrated,
  • re moving,
  • re-position,
  • re-located,
  • bottomed out,
  • dis place,
  • turned tables,
  • recalibrates,
  • re-positioned,
  • dis-locates,
  • flipflopped,
  • co-oked,
  • re arrange,
  • changed gears,
  • changing gears,
  • turns the tables,
  • re-move,
  • changes gears,
  • re move,
  • re located,
  • re-arranging,
  • dis-locating,
  • swapped places,
  • ex change,
  • re arranged,
  • re calibrated,
  • re calibrates,
  • dis places,
  • dis-places,
  • turn tables,
  • turning tables,
  • turns tables,
  • dis-locate,
  • switches over,
  • re locates,
  • turn corner,
  • flip flopped,
  • moves over,
  • dis placed,
  • re positions,
  • dialled back,
  • re-arranges,
  • re-locates,
  • dis locating,
  • ex-changed,
  • re arranging,
  • co oked,
  • turns around,
  • dis-placed,
  • re-calibrating,
  • turns the corner.
  •skid (verb)
  • went in to skid,
  • going in to skid,
  • goes in to skid,
  • going into skid,
  • goes into skid,
  • go in to skid,
  • went into skid.
  •slant (verb)
  • de scends,
  • de-scending,
  • de scending,
  • de-scends,
  • lay obliquely,
  • lied obliquely,
  • de-scend,
  • de scended,
  • lying obliquely,
  • de scend,
  • de-scended,
  • lies obliquely.
  •slide (verb)
  • smoothed along,
  • moves along,
  • scooches,
  • smoothing along,
  • smooths along,
  • scooched,
  • scooching,
  • moving along.
  •swerve (verb)
  • sheering off,
  • sheered off,
  • trained off,
  • gets course,
  • gotten off course,
  • got off course,
  • goes course,
  • going course,
  • trains off,
  • getting course,
  • training off,
  • get course,
  • goes off course,
  • sheers off,
  • got course,
  • went off course,
  • getting off course,
  • went course,
  • gotten course,
  • go course,
  • gat course,
  • gets off course,
  • gat off course.
  •swing (verb)
  • turn axis,
  • turning an axis,
  • turning on an axis,
  • wast pendent,
  • turns axis,
  • are pendent,
  • art pendent,
  • were pendent,
  • was pendent,
  • turning axis,
  • turned on an axis,
  • am pendent,
  • turn an axis,
  • turning on axis,
  • pendulates,
  • pendulated,
  • turned on axis,
  • turn on axis,
  • wert pendent,
  • turns about,
  • being pendent,
  • is pendent,
  • turned axis,
  • turns an axis,
  • turns on axis,
  • awaying,
  • turns on an axis,
  • turned an axis.
  •switch (verb)
  • inter changed,
  • inter-changing,
  • turnabouting,
  • inter-changes,
  • turnabouted,
  • changed course,
  • inter changing,
  • inter change,
  • inter changes,
  • changing course.
  •turn (verb)
  • re channelled,
  • re-channelled,
  • in verse,
  • in-verse,
  • up-setting,
  • re trace,
  • re-coils,
  • in-versed,
  • in-versing,
  • re-channel,
  • re-coiled,
  • re-lapsing,
  • re-turned,
  • re channeling,
  • re-channeled,
  • re coiling,
  • re-lapses,
  • changing position,
  • re-coiling,
  • up setting,
  • re coiled,
  • in versed,
  • re-traces,
  • re-coil,
  • shies away,
  • re lapse,
  • re channeled,
  • inversing,
  • re channel,
  • re lapsed,
  • re channelling,
  • Re-turn,
  • re-turning,
  • re-channels,
  • faced about,
  • re-traced,
  • de-tract,
  • shying away,
  • up-set,
  • re-channelling,
  • up-sets,
  • re lapses,
  • re-lapse,
  • facing about,
  • re turning,
  • re coil,
  • in versing,
  • re-trace,
  • rechannelled,
  • re-lapsed,
  • re turns,
  • re traced,
  • re-channeling,
  • changed position,
  • re turn,
  • de tracts,
  • re-tracing,
  • re-turns,
  • re tracing,
  • faces about,
  • changes position,
  • re channels,
  • re traces,
  • re lapsing,
  • de tract,
  • up sets,
  • re coils,
  • de-tracts,
  • shied away.
  •wander (verb)
  • got off track,
  • get track,
  • gets the track,
  • gotten the track,
  • getting off track,
  • getting off the track,
  • lost train of thought,
  • talking nonsense,
  • gotten off track,
  • got the track,
  • gets off track,
  • losing train of thought,
  • loses one's way,
  • gat off the track,
  • gotten off the track,
  • talked nonsense,
  • getting track,
  • lose way,
  • get the track,
  • lose ones way,
  • lose train thought,
  • losing train thought,
  • lose one way,
  • get off track,
  • loses train thought,
  • loses way,
  • gat off track,
  • loses train of thought,
  • got off the track,
  • talks nonsense,
  • loses one way,
  • lost train thought,
  • gat the track,
  • getting the track,
  • gets track,
  • gat track,
  • gets off the track,
  • lost one way,
  • got track,
  • losing one's way,
  • lost one's way,
  • loses ones way,
  • gotten track,
  • lost ones way,
  • lost way,
  • losing ones way,
  • losing way,
  • losing one way.
  •yaw (verb)
  • un steadied,
  • un-steadying,
  • un-steadied,
  • un steadying,
  • un steady,
  • unsteadying,
  • un steadies,
  • un-steadies,
  • unsteadies.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • skew.
  •
  • chop,
  • shrink,
  • retreat,
  • pull away,
  • draw back,
  • backtrack,
  • stand aside,
  • scatter,
  • back away.
  •
  • avert,
  • corner.
  •
  • come around or round.
  •avert
  • turn aside.
  •bend
  • tilted,
  • Zigzagged,
  • rounding,
  • refract,
  • angle away,
  • loop,
  • zigzags,
  • spiraled,
  • camber,
  • angle off,
  • incurvate,
  • warp,
  • cambers,
  • Zigzagging,
  • Cambered,
  • detoured,
  • Cambering,
  • spiralled,
  • spiraling,
  • spiralling,
  • detouring,
  • Incurvated.
  •change
  • transfigure,
  • Revolutionizing,
  • remaking,
  • remake,
  • made over,
  • re-formed,
  • tampers with,
  • tampering with,
  • make over,
  • restyled,
  • metamorphose,
  • transformed,
  • tampered with,
  • tamper with,
  • Evolved,
  • remakes,
  • Metamorphosed,
  • restyling,
  • substitute,
  • make innovations,
  • restyle,
  • Re-form.
  •curve
  • Incurving,
  • Convexed,
  • inflect,
  • Snaking,
  • wreathed,
  • incurves,
  • wreathe,
  • Snaked,
  • Concaved,
  • arcing,
  • incurved,
  • inflects,
  • inflected,
  • Concaving,
  • wreathes,
  • Inflecting,
  • Wreathing,
  • Incurve,
  • concaves,
  • Wreathen.
  •deflect
  • Sheered,
  • glance off,
  • covering up,
  • shies,
  • hold off,
  • cover up,
  • slipping,
  • Slewed,
  • Shied,
  • covers up,
  • Slipped,
  • wheeled,
  • slewing,
  • covered up,
  • sheers,
  • fend,
  • Shying,
  • Sheering,
  • Parried,
  • keep off,
  • volte-faces.
  •depart
  • forsake,
  • turning aside,
  • turned aside,
  • excurses,
  • Excurse.
  •deviate
  • go amiss,
  • getting around,
  • bear off,
  • go out of way,
  • edge off,
  • take a turn,
  • depart from,
  • go off on tangent,
  • break pattern,
  • not conforming,
  • aberrate,
  • takes a turn,
  • aberrated,
  • circumlocate,
  • leave beaten path,
  • go out of control,
  • bend the rules,
  • go haywire,
  • swim against stream,
  • not conform.
  •diverge
  • branched,
  • Divaricating,
  • divaricate,
  • Divaricated,
  • branching.
  •sidle
  • Inched,
  • Inching.
  •skid
  • go into skid.
  •wander
  • talk nonsense,
  • lose one's way,
  • goes astray,
  • lose train of thought,
  • going astray,
  • get off the track,
  • went astray.
  •yaw
  • unsteadied.
  •Other relevant words:
  • diversify,
  • arc,
  • be converted into,
  • curl,
  • resume,
  • issue,
  • countermarch,
  • jib,
  • head,
  • disposition,
  • regurgitate,
  • angle,
  • come around,
  • glance,
  • rove,
  • steer clear of,
  • qualify,
  • deviousness,
  • jibe,
  • branch,
  • put back,
  • condense,
  • rationalise,
  • regression,
  • indirection,
  • list,
  • ignore,
  • tend,
  • divagation,
  • chevron,
  • coil,
  • skip,
  • change one's mind,
  • go off,
  • worsen,
  • stop,
  • meander,
  • edit,
  • bob,
  • make out,
  • balk,
  • withdraw,
  • Errantry,
  • bear to starboard,
  • draw aside,
  • fend off,
  • haw,
  • weave,
  • double,
  • turn sour,
  • geld,
  • revert,
  • turnaround,
  • diversion,
  • trend setting,
  • contract,
  • convince,
  • worm,
  • about ship,
  • modify,
  • ply,
  • reduce,
  • heel,
  • obliquity,
  • head off,
  • cut back,
  • exchange,
  • go bad,
  • dogleg,
  • slip,
  • pitch,
  • slew,
  • tilt,
  • Tralineate,
  • tailor,
  • alter,
  • knee,
  • Discursion,
  • burn,
  • chop and change,
  • revolve,
  • innovate,
  • variety,
  • be biased,
  • go about,
  • shy,
  • straying,
  • style,
  • move,
  • roll,
  • beat about,
  • deviation,
  • wear ship,
  • turn back,
  • crank,
  • wear,
  • deviance,
  • run back,
  • shorten,
  • get back,
  • rotate,
  • edge,
  • deviancy,
  • come about,
  • improve,
  • hark back,
  • change direction,
  • box off,
  • win over,
  • side,
  • vacillate,
  • bight,
  • commute,
  • obstruct,
  • perpendicularly,
  • bias,
  • turn over,
  • divergence,
  • bring round,
  • arch,
  • ameliorate,
  • conversion,
  • come back,
  • back and fill,
  • degenerate,
  • drifting,
  • Retrocede,
  • trend,
  • desire,
  • modulate,
  • ramble,
  • digression,
  • hack,
  • retrograde,
  • sweep,
  • pass,
  • change the heading,
  • perversion,
  • deflexion,
  • mitigate,
  • bent,
  • bear away,
  • trim back,
  • career,
  • trim,
  • aberrancy,
  • retire,
  • transfer,
  • turn away,
  • crook,
  • back down,
  • careen,
  • gyration,
  • step aside,
  • branching off,
  • bring down,
  • rambling,
  • thin,
  • crotchet,
  • checker,
  • declination,
  • foreshorten,
  • furcation,
  • appetite,
  • crawfish,
  • ease off,
  • wandering,
  • dilute,
  • oblique,
  • circuitousness,
  • Intervert,
  • impress,
  • inclination,
  • aberration,
  • pare,
  • cease,
  • divarication,
  • ell,
  • drive,
  • deteriorate,
  • twiddle,
  • change of direction,
  • straggle,
  • zig,
  • bring about,
  • bifurcate,
  • crawl,
  • sway,
  • be renewed,
  • put about,
  • turn off,
  • abridge,
  • inversion,
  • shove aside,
  • go,
  • lurch,
  • lateralize,
  • come round,
  • dodge,
  • dart,
  • pass to,
  • wind,
  • spin,
  • cant,
  • disregard,
  • ebb,
  • waver,
  • fly off,
  • turn tail,
  • flop,
  • cast about,
  • distortion,
  • snub,
  • Regrade,
  • excursus,
  • vertex,
  • zigzag,
  • nook,
  • beat,
  • sidestep,
  • persuade,
  • prune,
  • meliorate,
  • hairpin,
  • revive,
  • gybe,
  • go astray,
  • twine,
  • lateral,
  • retrogression,
  • withdraw from,
  • abbreviate,
  • gyrate,
  • face,
  • wallow,
  • walk,
  • transmute,
  • gee,
  • cast,
  • cant round,
  • backwater,
  • fork,
  • quoin,
  • write out,
  • variance,
  • kink,
  • turnabout,
  • cut down,
  • keel over,
  • break,
  • break away,
  • influence,
  • facing,
  • be changed,
  • leave,
  • Pererration,
  • manage,
  • heel over,
  • peel off,
  • deflection,
  • fetch,
  • duck,
  • turnover,
  • abjure,
  • hook,
  • lose ground,
  • abandon,
  • furcate,
  • round,
  • relinquish,
  • turn into,
  • turn away from,
  • change the bearing,
  • edit out,
  • difference,
  • elbow,
  • coin,
  • zag,
  • apex,
  • rationalize,
  • shoot,
  • back out,
  • revolution,
  • point,
  • affection,
  • wax and wane,
  • rotation,
  • excursion,
  • hew,
  • proselyte,
  • departure,
  • to turn,
  • reversal,
  • swerving,
  • bifurcation,
  • mutate,
  • inflection,
  • shuffle,
  • detour,
  • evert,
  • trim down,
  • fall back,
  • curtail,
  • return,
  • turning.

Paraphrases for Veer:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    deviate.

Antonyms for Veer:

• v.

  • change
    back.
  • change direction
    straighten, go direct, stay, keep to.
  • Other antonyms:
    continue, remain, keep, hold, endure, bide, retain, persist, abide.

Veer Sentence Examples:

• Thus, Holland consisted of two members, or branches - the nobles and the six chief cities; Flanders of four branches - the cities, namely, of Ghent, Bruges, Ypres, and the " freedom of Bruges;" Brabant of Louvain, Brussels, Bois le Due, and Antwerp, four great cities, without representation of nobility or clergy; Zeland, of one clerical person, the abbot of Middelburg, one noble, the Marquis of Veer and Vliessingen, and six chief cities; Utrecht, of three branches - the nobility, the clergy, and five cities.

• Should they veer round or steer ahead?

Homophones for Veer:

• Vere.

Hyponym for Veer:

• v.

  • change
    shift, change over, switch.