careen

verb
🔊/kəˈriːn/
🔊/kəˈriːn/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they careen
🔊/kəˈriːn/
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he / she / it careens
🔊/kəˈriːnz/
🔊/kəˈriːnz/
past simple careened
🔊/kəˈriːnd/
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past participle careened
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-ing form careening
🔊/kəˈriːnɪŋ/
🔊/kəˈriːnɪŋ/
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  1. + adv./prep. (of a person or vehicle人或车辆) to move forward very quickly especially in a way that is dangerous or shows a loss of control (尤指危险或失控地)猛冲,疾驶synonym hurtleTopics Transport by car or lorryc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun denoting the position of a careened ship, which was turned on its side for maintenance): from French carène, from Italian carena, from Latin carina ‘a keel’. The current sense was influenced by the verb career.