careen /kəˈɹiːn/verb 6noun 1forms 3 verb6 •To tilt on one side. •(US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. •(US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.The tragedy is immediate, real, epic and unfolding before our eyes. But it isn’t new. It is the wreckage of a train that has been careening down the track for years. — 2020 •To lurch or sway violently from side to side.They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening. — 1909 •To tilt or lean while in motion. •To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. noun1 •The position of a ship laid on one side. formscareened · careening · careens
