Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to careen
Participle: careened
Gerund: careening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | careen |
| you | careen |
| he;she;it | careens |
| we | careen |
| you | careen |
| they | careen |
Perfect
| I | have careened |
| you | have careened |
| he;she;it | has careened |
| we | have careened |
| you | have careened |
| they | have careened |
Past
| I | careened |
| you | careened |
| he;she;it | careened |
| we | careened |
| you | careened |
| they | careened |
Pluperfect
| I | had careened |
| you | had careened |
| he;she;it | had careened |
| we | had careened |
| you | had careened |
| they | had careened |
Future
| I | will careen |
| you | will careen |
| he;she;it | will careen |
| we | will careen |
| you | will careen |
| they | will careen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have careened |
| you | will have careened |
| he;she;it | will have careened |
| we | will have careened |
| you | will have careened |
| they | will have careened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | careen |
| you | careen |
| he;she;it | careen |
| we | careen |
| you | careen |
| they | careen |
Perfect
| I | have careened |
| you | have careened |
| he;she;it | have careened |
| we | have careened |
| you | have careened |
| they | have careened |
Imperfect
| I | careened |
| you | careened |
| he;she;it | careened |
| we | careened |
| you | careened |
| they | careened |
Pluperfect
| I | had careened |
| you | had careened |
| he;she;it | had careened |
| we | had careened |
| you | had careened |
| they | had careened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would careen |
| you | would careen |
| he;she;it | would careen |
| we | would careen |
| you | would careen |
| they | would careen |
Perfect
| I | would have careened |
| you | would have careened |
| he;she;it | would have careened |
| we | would have careened |
| you | would have careened |
| they | would have careened |
Imperative
| you | careen |
| we | Let's careen |
| you | careen |
Verbs conjugated like 'careen'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'careen'
career,
barken,
calmen,
carbon,
care,
caress,
carney,
carpent,
carpet,
cartel,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1591, "to turn a ship on its side" (with the keel exposed), from M.Fr. carene "keel," from It. (Genoese dialect) carena, from L. carina "keel of a ship," originally "nutshell." Generalized sense of "to lean, to tilt" is 1883; confused with career (v.) since at least 1923. To career is to move rapidly; to careen is to lurch from side to side (often while moving rapidly).
2. Etymology tree
3. Latin carīna
4. Italian carenabor.
5. French carènebor.
6. English careen
7. First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina.
Sample Sentences
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However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth. [1749 July, “Anſon's voyage of the world”, in The Scots Magazine, volume xi, pages 333-334:]
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They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening. [1909, E. M. Forster, “Chapter I”, in The Machine Stops:]
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The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames... [2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:]
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He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface. [2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2018:]
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The tragedy is immediate, real, epic and unfolding before our eyes. But it isn’t new. It is the wreckage of a train that has been careening down the track for years. [2020 April 3, Arundhati Roy, “The pandemic is a portal”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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Argentina may be an unlikely place for a billionaire looking for stability. The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation. [2026 May 28, Emma Bubola, Ryan Mac, “Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World”, in The New York Times:]