careens
Meaning of careens
verb, 3rd person present
- move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
an electric golf cart careened around the corner
- 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 careens
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of careens is: careen.
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Hyphenation of careens
ca-reens
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- careens is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
careens synonyms
Meaning move with urgent haste:
Meaning move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner:
Meaning move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way:
Meaning cover (a surface) with streaks:
Meaning kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow:
Meaning compete with another or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective:
Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:
Meaning run or travel somewhere in a great hurry:
Meaning move quickly:
Meaning move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time:
Meaning move quickly through the air with a whistling or buzzing sound:
Meaning move or travel very quickly:
Meaning shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way:
Meaning blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives:
Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:
Meaning (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings:
Meaning fasten with a belt:
Meaning go or leave somewhere quickly:
Meaning pull (something) apart or to pieces with force:
Meaning fasten with a zip:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on:
Meaning destroy or obliterate:
Meaning attack (a place or object) with a bomb or bombs:
Meaning move or travel fast:
Meaning fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips:
Anagrams of careens
Words that rhyme with careens
crubeens, gombeens, peebeens, shebeens, narceens, deens, dudeens, spaldeens, carageens, carrageens, Gheens, arsheens, carragheens, dasheens, drisheens, dudheens, potheens, sheens, wheens, buckeens, damaskeens, jackeens, keens, nankeens, palankeens, skeens, baleens, colleens, spleens, mavourneens, shoneens, alpeens, fillipeens, peens, spalpeens, Greens, Screens, bescreens, boreens, choirscreens, evergreens, firescreens, greens, meatscreens, mondegreens, moreens, outpreens, overgreens, pistareens, preens
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