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Meanings of careen in English

Catalan
escorar

Pitching dangerously to one side.

        escorar
        Catalan
        titubar
        Spanish
        vacilar

        Walk as if unable to control one's movements.

              titubar
              Spanish
              escorar

              Move sideways or in an unsteady way.

                    escorar
                    Usage of careen in English
                    1
                    Then I saw the blinding flash of a star careen toward its zenith.
                    Demon: a memoir
                    2
                    To ride and float, plume and careen, to plume myself on pleasures unseen.
                    Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
                    3
                    Johnny was driving too fast, the car seemed to careen around every curve.
                    Transgression: a novel of love and war
                    4
                    The 3d July I hove my ship down on the careen to sheath her.
                    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
                    5
                    He came hither to careen, therefore hauled into the harbour and unrigged his ship.
                    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
                    6
                    But as I careen forward he steps up and catches my wrists, steadying me.
                    Catching Fire
                    7
                    A new pain stabbed her, causing the room to careen.
                    The Grey Cloak
                    8
                    Six balls haphazardly careen around inside the largely barren rectangle of the game space.
                    Wired
                    9
                    I careen into Uriel, bumping him harder than I intended.
                    World After
                    10
                    A bigger wave than usual had half filled the launch and caused it to careen.
                    Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second...
                    11
                    But my ships are foul with the long passage, and are in need of a careen.
                    The Lost Continent
                    12
                    She watched gulls careen through the cloudy air.
                    Flesh and blood
                    13
                    I feel like we careen from headline to headline and the real story won't emerge for years.
                    The Guardian
                    14
                    Here and there he lay in such rubbish as motionless as the effigies careen on marble biers.
                    Greyfriars Bobby
                    15
                    Pulleys whine as the first of her pursuers careen down the last few hundred meters of wire.
                    The Hyperion Cantos
                    16
                    Bids have started pretty low and slow, but they careen up, and my adrenaline perks up too.
                    Radio NZ
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                    Careen through the time