careen [ kuh-reen ]
The word of the day is ‘careen.’
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is careened.
It means:
1. Tilt
2. Move wildly down path
3. Walk as if unable to control one’s movements
4. To incline to one side
1. Hindi – Jhuk jaana
2. Spanish – Carena
3. French – Caréner
4. Mandarin – Guānxīn
1. But my ships are foul with the long passage, and are in need of a careen.
2. We will careen the ship for a day or so, so as to let the carpenter and his mates get at the leak.
3. When we have your report, we can arrange to careen the ship, but not before.
4. It can’t be more than a week or ten days’ job, even if we careen her.
5. An electric golf cart careened around the corner. (https://thediscerningcat.com/)
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
lurch, bend, lean, pitch, sway, tilt, rush, hurtle, sway, streak, carson, incline, lean, stagger, wobble, pitch, keel, slant, swing, totter, swerve, waver, coggle, falter, calk, angle etc.
straighten, steady, still, unbend, crystallise, heighten, disentangle, decompress
Quotation:
Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives – their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.
Joy Reid
Social Example:
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