careen

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  1. intransitive verb To lurch or swerve while in motion.
  2. intransitive verb To rush headlong or carelessly; career: "He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz” (Anne Tyler).
  3. intransitive verb Nautical To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.
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  • Men are allowed to careen, stumble and gallivant through bachelorhood indefinitely; women have to say they are looking for "the one," or their relatives look at them funny. —  Jezebel
  • But until Wall Street deals with this blind spot, it is likely to careen from one crisis to another.
  • Boston Globe, Ward talks with writer Drake Bennett about the other four extinctions -- and about the way our planet seems to careen toward destruction over and over. —  TEDTalks (video)
  • At precisely that time of day, when people are just starting to think about hitting the pub, the brewer's Silver Bullet Train icon will careen across their field of vision. —  ClickZ News Blog
  • Stipe switches between a wordless careen and a precise croon, reaching into his upper register on —  Murmurs.com
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  1. From French (en) carène, (on) the keel, from Old French carene, from Old Italian carena, from Latin carīna; see kar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly carine, from French carener, now caréner (= Spanish carenar = Portuguese querenar = Italian carenare), careen, from carene, carine, now carène, = Italian carena, from Latin carina, the keel of a ship: see carina.
  2. from careen, v.
 

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