VEER

[verb] [I usually + adverb or preposition] - to change directionThere was a sudden flash of light, making the driver veer sharply.The officer said he saw the car veer off the side of the road.The jet was taking off on the north-east runway when it veered to the north.The walking is flat and easy, with tracks frequently veering off to isolated farms.Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter veered off course into an oil platform and ditched into the North Sea.The story never veers off course.Our talk soon veered onto the subject of football.The wind veered round to the north.Manic depressives may veer back and forth between periods of manic behavior and the appearance of normality.