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slew

/sl(j)uː/ verbe C2
  1. To rotate or turn something about its axis. (transitive)
  2. To veer a vehicle. (transitive)
  3. To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. (transitive)
  4. To pivot. (intransitive)
  5. To skid. (intransitive)
  6. To move something (usually a railway line) sideways. (transitive) · The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.

He/she/it slews · Prétérit slewed · Participe passé slewed · Forme en -ing slewing

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Dans la bibliothèque

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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 27 · B2
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 133 · C1

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