Careen

/kəˈɹiːn/

Synonyms for "careen" (173 found)

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Closest matches (35)

Strong matches (52)

fall headlongfall offfall overfall prostratefalterflounceflounderfluctuateflutterget a cropperglancego downhillgo uphillgradeheelinclinekeelkeel overlaborlay down
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More general

16 entries
lurchmaintenance proceduremotionmovenautical termorientation changephysical statepitchpitchingpositional changerapid movementship operationspeedtiltingwalk

More specific

11 entries
frenzied rushheadlong rushheelhull cleaningkeel inspectionlistlurchplanking repairport liststarboard listswerve

Collocations

11 entries
careen operationcareen sitecareened vesselcareening hullcareening perioderratic velocityhull exposurerapid movementrough seasship maintenanceuncontrolled motion

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth.

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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.

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The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames...

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He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.

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