What is another word for be adrift?
Synonyms for be adrift
be adrift
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Princeton's WordNet
float, drift, be adrift, blowverb
be in motion due to some air or water current
"The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
Synonyms:
swash, rove, vagabond, botch, ramble, bungle, muck up, range, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, stray, blow, tout, burn out, screw up, suck, gasconade, roll, fumble, flub, fellate, cast, ball up, err, freewheel, bollocks, wander, shoot a line, mess up, shove off, waste, louse up, bollocks up, float, gas, bollix, bluster, vaunt, swan, muff, tramp, blow out, swim, foul up, boast, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodge
Matched Categories
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#605 | range | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2540 | blow | |
#2595 | roll | |
#3373 | suck | |
#6803 | float | |
#6845 | swim | |
#10368 | swan | |
#11353 | err | |
#11779 | drift | |
#17234 | rove | |
#17542 | wander | |
#17634 | tout | |
#18651 | stray | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23203 | boast | |
#25040 | tramp | |
#25519 | roam | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#38590 | ramble | |
#39493 | vagabond | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#57008 | swash | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#80961 | squander | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#101641 | freewheel | |
#104177 | botch | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#220019 | flub | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#315643 | mishandle |
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What Biden inherited was a ship that was adrift at sea that he's had to sail on a corrective course to get things back in place, and I think he's done an excellent job in doing so.
If cabinet members are found guilty they have to go. Three have fallen and more could follow. That's not a problem. Temer will still have our support because Brazil was adrift and he has set the economy on a new course.
What is sure is that the (Egypt) route is very long, it is very risky and these people including many families with babies have been adrift at sea for many days, up to a week, we know also that there are a lot of unaccompanied minors, from 12 to 16, 17 years old.
Worlds Adrift allows you to go into the game and set your own objectives and go about the game however you choose.
These young people have been uprooted and have been cast adrift, they are traumatized, and they have no structure in their daily lives.
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