careen

Definitions of careen in various dictionaries:

noun - pitching dangerously to one side

verb - walk as if unable to control one's movements

verb - move sideways or in an unsteady way

To lurch or swerve while in motion.

To rush headlong or carelessly; career: “He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz” (Anne Tyler).

Nautical.

To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.

To turn a ship on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.

To cause (a ship) to lean to one side; tilt.

To lean (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.

To clean, caulk, or repair (a ship in this position).

The act or process of careening a ship.

The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use of careen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generally careen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed.

verb - to lurch while moving

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