CAREENED Synonyms: 157 Similar and Opposite Words

careened

verb

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past tense of careen

as in lurched

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the sled careened as it barreled down the hill

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as in staggered

to move forward while swaying from side to side he careened unsteadily to the couch after hitting his head

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as in sped

to proceed or move quickly sounding its siren, an ambulance careened through the intersection

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Recent Examples of careened Pena was shifted perfectly up the middle to field it and step on second for the third out, but the grounder careened off the bag into the outfield for an RBI double. —

Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026 During just the first hour of Tuesday’s trading, the Dow careened between a gain of 74 points and a loss of 425. —

Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 As the Boston Red Sox careened toward their eighth loss just ten games into the season, the chants grew louder. —

Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026 After sliding about 1,000 vertical feet, Bhatta careened into a patch of snow and stopped. —

Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026 The car then careened through two yards before hitting a Chevrolet Equinox parked in the driveway of a home, officials said. —

Michael Guise, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 One commercial jet careened into a seawall while landing in heavy fog; another plunged into Tokyo Bay for unknown reasons; yet another, into Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, also for unknown reasons. —

Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 The shot careened off the rim and the crowd erupted as Texas State defeated the Mountaineers 60-57 — its seventh victory in eight games. —

Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026 Within seconds, a tsunami of ice, snow and debris the size of a football field careened downhill around them, thick enough to nearly bury a house, authorities said, citing the accounts of survivors. —

Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026

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Don’t gag, don’t cry — and my stomach lurched.

— Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
Since then, the larger culture has lurched rightward, with big corporations abandoning progressive signaling in favor of…other priorities.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026