Usually means: Moved swiftly and uncontrollably; swerved.
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  1. careened: Merriam-Webster
  2. careened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. careened: Vocabulary.com
  4. careened: Wordnik
  5. careened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. careened: Wiktionary
  7. Careened, careened: Dictionary.com
  8. careened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Careened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Careened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. careened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. careened: FreeDictionary.org
  13. careened: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See careen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (careen)

verb:  (nautical, transitive) 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.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.
verb:  (intransitive) To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
verb:  (intransitive) To tilt or lean while in motion.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
noun:  (nautical) The position of a ship laid on one side.
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