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Be adrift   /bi ədrˈɪft/   Listen
Be adrift

verb
1.
Be in motion due to some air or water current.  Synonyms: blow, drift, float.  "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"






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"Be adrift" Quotes from Famous Books



... length was decked over, with a trunk cabin, in which were transoms large enough for four berths, with a cook-room forward. She was handsomely fitted up, and Little Bobtail wondered how she happened to be adrift. He hoisted the mainsail, and in a few moments ran her into a little bay under the lee of Blank Island, where he anchored her. As she had an anchor it was evident that she had not broken away from her anchorage. Having secured the old boat at a safe distance from ...
— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic



Words linked to "Be adrift" :   travel, go, move, drift, waft, tide, stream, locomote



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