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Yes, careen is playable

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"Careen" Definition

noun

Nautical The act or process of careening a ship.
Nautical The position of a careened ship.
The act or process of the state of being .

verb-transitive

Nautical To cause (a ship) to lean to one side; tilt.
To clean, caulk, or repair (a ship in this position).
To lean (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.

verb-intransitive

Nautical To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.
Nautical To turn a ship on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
To lurch or swerve while in motion.
To rush headlong or carelessly; career: "He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz” ( Anne Tyler).

verb

To heel over.
To sway from side to side .
To cause to heel over.
To careen a boat.
To undergo this process.

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