How to pronounce careen
American English pronunciation
kuh-REEN
- IPA
- /kəˈɹin/
- Syllables
- kuh · REEN (2 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What careen means
Most people know careen in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
To tip a beached ship on its side to clean its hull
In a sentence: The pirates careened their ship on a sandy beach and scraped the barnacles off its bottom.
Where it comes from: It came into English in the late 1500s from a French word for a ship's keel, from the Latin carina, meaning keel.
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