virer

Meaning

1. to bear, veer (change direction slightly)
2. to turn into, become
3. to transfer (money, from one account to another)
4. (colloquial) to get rid of, fire, shitcan

Concepts

veer

turn

change direction

sack

endorse

fire

swerve

transfer

cut off

veer off

send out

lay off

bend

bear

send

curve

cut

sheer

slew

slue

trend

turn away

dismiss

indorse

lumber with

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vi.ʁe/

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *virāre, probably from Latin vibrāre (in which case it is a doublet of vibrer) or possibly from an alteration of gȳrō. Compare Italian virare, Spanish virar. Or, possibly from Gaulish *viru (“to deviate, veer off”), itself derived from viros (“round, crooked”).