From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Careen \Ca*reen"\, verb (used without an object) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Careen \Ca*reen"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Careened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Careening}.] [OF. cariner, F. car['e]ner, fr. OF. car['e]ne, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina.] (Naut.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: {rock}, {sway}, {tilt}]
verb
1: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: {stagger}, {reel}, {keel}, {lurch}, {swag}]
2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: {wobble}, {shift}, {tilt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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