careen

Meanings

Verb

• 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.
• To tilt on one side.
• To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
• To tilt or lean while in motion.
• To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
• To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

Noun

• The position of a ship laid on one side.

Origin

• Late 16th century, from French carene ("keel"), from Genoese Ligurian carena, from Latin carīna ("keel of a ship"). carina.