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Exact Match:

veer: shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered"

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turn tail collapse

swivel collapse: a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin

turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

avert collapse: turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"

put about collapse

turn about collapse

ell collapse: an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building

head off collapse

sidestep collapse: a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

digress collapse: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"

zag collapse

bear off collapse

bottom out collapse: hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"; reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"

come about collapse

haw collapse: the nictitating membrane of a horse; utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"

turn the corner collapse

turn back collapse: turn inside out or upside down

bight collapse: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends); a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"; a bend or curve (especially in a coastline); a loop in a rope; fasten with a bight

furcate collapse

turn aside collapse

steer clear of collapse

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

quoin collapse: the keystone of an arch; expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

depart from collapse

skid collapse: an unexpected slide; one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects; move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"; slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road"; apply a brake or skid to; elevate onto skids

go about collapse

change course collapse

about ship collapse

hairpin collapse: a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place

shunt collapse: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body; a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current; a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"; transfer to another track, of trains; provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

pivot collapse: the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot"; axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns; the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver; turn on a pivot

turn into collapse

checker collapse: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers; one who checks the correctness of something; an attendant who checks coats or baggage; variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns

nook collapse: a sheltered and secluded place

sidle collapse: move sideways; move unobtrusively or furtively; "The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log"

dogleg collapse: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway; angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog

sheer off collapse

swerving collapse

mutate collapse: undergo mutation; "cells mutate"

vertex collapse: the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure; the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"

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