careen
verb/kəˈriːn/
/kəˈriːn/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they careen | /kəˈriːn/ /kəˈriːn/ |
| he / she / it careens | /kəˈriːnz/ /kəˈriːnz/ |
| past simple careened | /kəˈriːnd/ /kəˈriːnd/ |
| past participle careened | /kəˈriːnd/ /kəˈriːnd/ |
| -ing form careening | /kəˈriːnɪŋ/ /kəˈriːnɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. (of a person or vehicle) to move forward very quickly especially in a way that is dangerous or shows a loss of control synonym hurtleTopics Transport by car or lorryc2Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship, which was turned on its side for maintenance): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina ‘a keel’. The current sense was influenced by the verb career.
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