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BE ADRIFT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in motion due to some air or water current

Example:

the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore

Synonyms:

be adrift; blow; drift; float

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "be adrift" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

float (move lightly, as if suspended)

drift (cause to be carried by a current)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "be adrift"):

waft (be driven or carried along, as by the air)

tide (be carried with the tide)

stream (to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

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