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What does careen mean?

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Verb
  1. (nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
  2. (nautical) To tilt on one side.
  3. To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
  4. To tilt or lean while in motion. [from late 19th c.]
  5. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead. [from at least early 20th c.]
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When we have your report, we can arrange to careen the ship, but not before.
The captain will need our help to careen the ship soon, so he fined us instead of giving us all Mose's law.
He loves to careen all over the store and fill his cart with things we don't need, like unripened avocados and horrible new kinds of crackers.
These crazy carts careen into combat, crashing into the competition which occasionally cramps them up.
Begin bringing the others ashore and making preparations to careen her here.
The vessels first dispersed into coves and creeks to careen and salt turtle, and then reunited at the water key.

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