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Main Entry: careen
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tilt; move wildly down path

Synonyms:

bend, lean, lurch, pitch, sway, tilt
Notes: careen has a nautical origin and is a side-to-side trajectory while career is a headlong high-speed trajectory
Main Entry: bend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: form or cause a curve

Synonyms:

angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag

Antonyms:

straighten
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lean, slant

Synonyms:

angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip
Main Entry: dance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: moving feet and body to music

Synonyms:

Charleston, bob, boogie, boogie down, bunny hop, caper, careen, cavort, conga, cut a rug, disco, flit, foot it, foxtrot, frolic, gambol, get down, hoof it, hop, hustle, jig, jitter, jitterbug, jive, jump, leap, one-step, prance, promenade, rhumba, rock, rock n' roll, samba, shimmy, skip, spin, step, strut, sway, swing, tango, tap, tread, trip, trip the light fantastic, twist, two-step, waltz, whirl
Main Entry: glance
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ricochet, hit off of something

Synonyms:

bounce, brush, careen, carom, contact, dart, graze, kiss*, rebound, scrape, shave, sideswipe, skim, skip, slant, slide, strike, touch
Notes: a glance captures more than a glimpse; the verb glance takes no object while glimpse does
Main Entry: lean
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bend, angle toward

Synonyms:

be off, be slanted, bear on, beetle, bow, cant, careen, cock, curve, decline, deflect, dip, divert, drift, droop, fasten on, hang on, heel, incline, jut, list, nod, overhang, pitch, place, prop, put weight on, recline, repose, rest, rest on, roll, sag, sheer, sink, slant, slope, tilt, tip, turn, twist, veer

Antonyms:

straighten
Main Entry: list
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lean, slant

Synonyms:

cant, careen, heel, incline, pitch, recline, slope, tilt, tip

Antonyms:

lie, straighten
Main Entry: lurch
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move toward with jerk

Synonyms:

blunder, bumble, careen, dodge, duck, falter, flounder, heave, jerk, lean, list, move to the side, pitch, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, slide, slip, stagger, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, tilt, toss, totter, wallow, weave, wobble, yaw

Antonyms:

retreat
Main Entry: pitch
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dive, roll

Synonyms:

ascend, bend, bicker, careen, descend, dip, drive, drop, fall, flounder, go down, heave, lean, lunge, lurch, plunge, rise, rock, seesaw, slope, slump, stagger, tilt, topple, toss, tumble, vault, wallow, welter, yaw
Main Entry: reel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wobble; spin around

Synonyms:

bob, careen, falter, feel giddy, go around, lurch, pitch, revolve, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, sway, swim, swing, swirl, teeter, titubate, totter, turn, twirl, waver, weave, wheel, whirl
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