careening

Meaning of careening

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
    an electric golf cart careened around the corner
  2. turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.

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 1 was influenced by the verb career.

Information about careening

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of careening

ca-reen-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • careening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

careening synonyms

Meaning move with urgent haste:

rush

Meaning move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner:

hurtle

Meaning move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way:

career

Meaning cover (a surface) with streaks:

streak

Meaning kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow:

shoot

Meaning compete with another or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective:

race

Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:

bolt

Meaning run or travel somewhere in a great hurry:

dash

Meaning move quickly:

speed

Meaning move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time:

run

Meaning move quickly through the air with a whistling or buzzing sound:

whizz

Meaning move or travel very quickly:

zoom

Meaning shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way:

flash

Meaning blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives:

blast

Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:

charge

Meaning (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings:

fly

Meaning fasten with a belt:

belt

Meaning go or leave somewhere quickly:

scoot

Meaning pull (something) apart or to pieces with force:

tear

Meaning fasten with a zip:

zip

Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on:

whip

Meaning destroy or obliterate:

zap

Meaning attack (a place or object) with a bomb or bombs:

bomb

Meaning move or travel fast:

hightail

Meaning fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips:

clip

Anagrams of careening

carnegine

Words that rhyme with careening

Chesaning, Harmaning, airplaning, aquaplaning, baning, beaning, begroaning, bemeaning, bemoaning, buccaning, caning, caravaning, chairmaning, chalaning, challaning, chicaning, cleaning, companing, costeaning, craning, deaning, demeaning, deplaning, eaning, emplaning, enplaning, foremeaning, gleaning, graddaning, groaning, housecleaning, hydroplaning, leaning, loaning, meaning, misdemeaning, moaning, organing, orphaning, overcleaning, paning, peaning, physicianing, planing, postweaning, precleaning, preweaning, profaning, recaning, recleaning

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