Definition of careen in English:

careen

verb kəˈriːnkəˈrin

1with object Turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.
（为清扫、捻缝或修理）将（船）倾侧
Example sentencesExamples
- And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned).
- Well, the four of us are going to discuss plans to careen the ship.
- Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
- That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned.
- He had suspected there was something different about him the day before they started careening the ship but had no proof of what he did suspect.
- His biggest day comes when we careen the ship, which happens twice a year.
- He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
- Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here.
- The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law.
- La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned.
1. 1.1no object (of a ship) tilt; lean over.
  （船）倾斜，倾侧
  a heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily
  一股巨大的涨潮使我的船倾斜到令人眩晕的地步。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ship careens in front of the bow and off to the port side.
  Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
  Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left.
  Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her.
  Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor.
  It careens into a standing wave, stalls at the crest for a moment, then is dumped into the whirlpool behind.
  He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
  When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left.
  He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker.
  The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw.
  Synonyms
  lean, tip, list, slope, camber, bank, slant, incline, pitch, dip, cant, bevel, angle, cock, heel, bend, be at an angle
2North American no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
（不加控制地）猛冲
an electric golf cart careened around the corner
一辆电动高尔夫车猛冲着拐了弯。
Example sentencesExamples
- Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you.
- She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard.
- I was sent careening backwards into a tree, smashing it over.
- Nathan swung around, his arm just missing Kayden as he bent his knees swiftly, allowing Nathan's arm to go careening over his head.
- Brett moved beside him and sent it careening over the net.
- Two men, looking like extras in a movie set in a small lakeside town in northwestern New Jersey, come careening around the corner, eyes popping.
- Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation.
- No matter how much she tried to sort out her thoughts, each one sent three or four new ones careening uncontrolled through her mind.
- It careens through barricades and smashes through the side of a building and barrels through apartment after apartment, emerging on the other side.
- Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules.
- They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch.
- As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew.
- And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine.
- John had thought of leaping from the jeep just before it collided with the hangar doors, but he couldn't risk the vehicle careening wildly to crash into the Apache.
- On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through.
- Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside.
- One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail.
- I reached the boy as the platform began to rock violently, threatening to send me and him careening into the swiftly moving water.
- Hey, we've careened across the Gaza coast in a donkey cart during closures of the (area formerly known as) Netzarim Junction, I think we can handle that.
- Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left.
Synonyms
career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run

Origin

Late 16th century (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina 'a keel'. Sense 2 was influenced by the verb career.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of careen in US English:

careen

verbkəˈrēnkəˈrin

1with object Turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.
（为清扫、捻缝或修理）将（船）倾侧
Example sentencesExamples
- The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law.
- And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned).
- He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
- La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned.
- Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here.
- Well, the four of us are going to discuss plans to careen the ship.
- His biggest day comes when we careen the ship, which happens twice a year.
- That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned.
- He had suspected there was something different about him the day before they started careening the ship but had no proof of what he did suspect.
- Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
1. 1.1no object (of a ship) tilt; lean over.
  （船）倾斜，倾侧
  a heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily
  一股巨大的涨潮使我的船倾斜到令人眩晕的地步。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ship careens in front of the bow and off to the port side.
  Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor.
  Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her.
  Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
  When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left.
  It careens into a standing wave, stalls at the crest for a moment, then is dumped into the whirlpool behind.
  He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker.
  He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
  Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left.
  The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw.
  Synonyms
  lean, tip, list, slope, camber, bank, slant, incline, pitch, dip, cant, bevel, angle, cock, heel, bend, be at an angle
2North American no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction.
（不加控制地）猛冲
an electric golf cart careened around the corner
一辆电动高尔夫车猛冲着拐了弯。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was sent careening backwards into a tree, smashing it over.
- It careens through barricades and smashes through the side of a building and barrels through apartment after apartment, emerging on the other side.
- Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left.
- Brett moved beside him and sent it careening over the net.
- No matter how much she tried to sort out her thoughts, each one sent three or four new ones careening uncontrolled through her mind.
- Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you.
- I reached the boy as the platform began to rock violently, threatening to send me and him careening into the swiftly moving water.
- John had thought of leaping from the jeep just before it collided with the hangar doors, but he couldn't risk the vehicle careening wildly to crash into the Apache.
- And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine.
- Nathan swung around, his arm just missing Kayden as he bent his knees swiftly, allowing Nathan's arm to go careening over his head.
- On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through.
- One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail.
- They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch.
- Hey, we've careened across the Gaza coast in a donkey cart during closures of the (area formerly known as) Netzarim Junction, I think we can handle that.
- Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation.
- As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew.
- Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside.
- Two men, looking like extras in a movie set in a small lakeside town in northwestern New Jersey, come careening around the corner, eyes popping.
- She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard.
- Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules.
Synonyms
career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run

Origin

Late 16th century (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina ‘a keel’. Sense 2 was influenced by the verb career.

词汇	careen
释义	Definition of careen in English: careen verb kəˈriːnkəˈrin 1with object Turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair. （为清扫、捻缝或修理）将（船）倾侧 Example sentencesExamples And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned). Well, the four of us are going to discuss plans to careen the ship. Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side. That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned. He had suspected there was something different about him the day before they started careening the ship but had no proof of what he did suspect. His biggest day comes when we careen the ship, which happens twice a year. He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls. Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here. The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law. La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned. 1.1no object (of a ship) tilt; lean over. （船）倾斜，倾侧 a heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily 一股巨大的涨潮使我的船倾斜到令人眩晕的地步。 Example sentencesExamples The ship careens in front of the bow and off to the port side. Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock. Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left. Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her. Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor. It careens into a standing wave, stalls at the crest for a moment, then is dumped into the whirlpool behind. He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet. When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left. He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker. The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw. Synonyms lean, tip, list, slope, camber, bank, slant, incline, pitch, dip, cant, bevel, angle, cock, heel, bend, be at an angle 2North American no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. （不加控制地）猛冲 an electric golf cart careened around the corner 一辆电动高尔夫车猛冲着拐了弯。 Example sentencesExamples Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you. She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard. I was sent careening backwards into a tree, smashing it over. Nathan swung around, his arm just missing Kayden as he bent his knees swiftly, allowing Nathan's arm to go careening over his head. Brett moved beside him and sent it careening over the net. Two men, looking like extras in a movie set in a small lakeside town in northwestern New Jersey, come careening around the corner, eyes popping. Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation. No matter how much she tried to sort out her thoughts, each one sent three or four new ones careening uncontrolled through her mind. It careens through barricades and smashes through the side of a building and barrels through apartment after apartment, emerging on the other side. Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules. They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch. As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew. And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine. John had thought of leaping from the jeep just before it collided with the hangar doors, but he couldn't risk the vehicle careening wildly to crash into the Apache. On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through. Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside. One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail. I reached the boy as the platform began to rock violently, threatening to send me and him careening into the swiftly moving water. Hey, we've careened across the Gaza coast in a donkey cart during closures of the (area formerly known as) Netzarim Junction, I think we can handle that. Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left. Synonyms career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run Origin Late 16th century (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina 'a keel'. Sense 2 was influenced by the verb career. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Definition of careen in US English: careen verbkəˈrēnkəˈrin 1with object Turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair. （为清扫、捻缝或修理）将（船）倾侧 Example sentencesExamples The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law. And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned). He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls. La Palma, the provincial capital, was settled in 1853 at a place where boats dry-docked to be careened and provisioned. Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here. Well, the four of us are going to discuss plans to careen the ship. His biggest day comes when we careen the ship, which happens twice a year. That sort of upkeep had always been done between tides, on gently sloped sandy beaches, where the boats were careened and cleaned. He had suspected there was something different about him the day before they started careening the ship but had no proof of what he did suspect. Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side. 1.1no object (of a ship) tilt; lean over. （船）倾斜，倾侧 a heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily 一股巨大的涨潮使我的船倾斜到令人眩晕的地步。 Example sentencesExamples The ship careens in front of the bow and off to the port side. Everyone stood in silent thought as the ship careened into the hull of the Protor and then burst into a huge explosion taking out not only themselves, but also the Protor. Amaiya had to psychically leap out of the way to avoid the ship careening into her. Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock. When she could sleep no more, and her stomach churned from the rocking of the ship, Chérie stumbled from her bed and stumbled clumsily as the ship careened sharply to the left. It careens into a standing wave, stalls at the crest for a moment, then is dumped into the whirlpool behind. He pulled back on the sticks, and the ship careened upward, its belly facing the attacker. He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet. Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left. The Confederate frigate shuddered, careening into an uncontrolled yaw. Synonyms lean, tip, list, slope, camber, bank, slant, incline, pitch, dip, cant, bevel, angle, cock, heel, bend, be at an angle 2North American no object, with adverbial of direction Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction. （不加控制地）猛冲 an electric golf cart careened around the corner 一辆电动高尔夫车猛冲着拐了弯。 Example sentencesExamples I was sent careening backwards into a tree, smashing it over. It careens through barricades and smashes through the side of a building and barrels through apartment after apartment, emerging on the other side. Next the photon would smack into the other electron; on absorbing the photon's energy and momentum, this electron would careen off toward the upper left. Brett moved beside him and sent it careening over the net. No matter how much she tried to sort out her thoughts, each one sent three or four new ones careening uncontrolled through her mind. Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you. I reached the boy as the platform began to rock violently, threatening to send me and him careening into the swiftly moving water. John had thought of leaping from the jeep just before it collided with the hangar doors, but he couldn't risk the vehicle careening wildly to crash into the Apache. And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine. Nathan swung around, his arm just missing Kayden as he bent his knees swiftly, allowing Nathan's arm to go careening over his head. On May 1 2004, he was manning a checkpoint when a car careened through. One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail. They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch. Hey, we've careened across the Gaza coast in a donkey cart during closures of the (area formerly known as) Netzarim Junction, I think we can handle that. Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation. As the heavily loaded semi careened through traffic, cars were smashed and some of the semi's tires blew. Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside. Two men, looking like extras in a movie set in a small lakeside town in northwestern New Jersey, come careening around the corner, eyes popping. She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard. Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules. Synonyms career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run Origin Late 16th century (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina ‘a keel’. Sense 2 was influenced by the verb career.
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