slew
/sl(j)uː/ verb C2- To rotate or turn something about its axis.
- To veer a vehicle.
- To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
- To pivot.
- To skid.
- To move something (usually a railway line) sideways. · The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.
He/she/it slews · Past slewed · Past participle slewed · -ing form slewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- slew
- He/she/it
- slews
- Past
- slewed
- Past participle
- slewed
- -ing form
- slewing
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When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
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