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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
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careen

 : 
Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
ca=reen

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun careen has 1 sense

Verb careen has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

careenv. t. [OF. cariner, F. caréner, fr. OF. carène, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina.].
     To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.  [1913 Webster]
careenv. i. 
     To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

careen, v.
1 tr. turn (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repair.
2 a intr. tilt; lean over. b tr. cause to do this.
3 intr. US swerve about; career.

Usage
Sense 3 is infl. by career (v.).
Derivative
careenage n.
Etymology
earlier as noun, = careened position of ship, f. F car{egrave}ne f. It. carena f. L carina keel

THESAURUS

careen

ascend, bank, blunder, bob, bobble, cant, capsize, career, climb, coggle, come a cropper, culbuter, dangle, decline, descend, dip, drop, fall, fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, get a cropper, go downhill, go uphill, grade, heel, incline, keel, keel over, labor, lay down, lean, librate, lie along, list, lurch, nutate, oscillate, overset, overthrow, overturn, pendulate, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, rake, reel, resonate, retreat, rise, rock, roll, seethe, shake, shelve, sidle, slant, slope, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, struggle, stumble, subvert, swag, sway, swerve, swing, swinging, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, thrash about, tilt, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, topsy-turvify, topsy-turvy, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trip, tumble, turn a somersault, turn over, turn topsy-turvy, turn turtle, turn upside down, uprise, upset, upturn, vacillate, veer, vibrate, volutation, wag, waggle, wallop, wallow, wave, waver, weave, welter, wobble

ROGET THESAURUS

careen

Restoration

VB return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

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