<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.</li><li>(of the wind) to change direction clockwise.</li><li>Nautical: to shift to a direction more nearly astern.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to alter the direction or course of; turn.</li><li>Nautical: to turn (a vessel) away from the wind; wear.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a change of direction, position, course, etc.: a sudden veer in a different direction.</li></ul>