English > be adrift: 1 sense > verb 1, motion| Meaning | Be in motion due to some air or water current. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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| Synonyms | float, drift, blow |
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| Caused by | fly | Cause to fly or float |
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| Narrower | stream | To extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind |
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| tide | Be carried with the tide |
| waft | Be driven or carried along, as by the air |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
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| Similar to | drift | Cause to be carried by a current |
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| float | Move lightly, as if suspended |
| Spanish | flotar |
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| Catalan | flotar, nedar, surar |
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