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adrift

/uh-drift/US // əˈdrɪft //UK // (əˈdrɪft) //

漂流,漂泊,漂移,漂浮

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : floating without control; drifting; not anchored or moored: The survivors were adrift in the rowboat for three days.
    • : lacking aim, direction, or stability.

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Examples

  • I was engaged, and when that engagement was called off, I felt adrift.

  • So it’s reasonable to conclude that these buoys mimic how well ancient watercraft set adrift in the same area might have fared, the researchers say.

  • After that hard-hitting game, they will face a Cowboys team that seems adrift.

  • Ultimately, she finds that her motherland is a place of perpetual migration, and at long last, she feels less adrift.

  • In her view, now is a great time for the ritually and spiritually adrift to shop around for their ritual fit.

  • Once we were discussing Lifeboat, a Hitchcock film that takes place almost entirely in a small boat adrift at sea.

  • Adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.

  • Still, “They were my island of misfit toys,” she says, adrift.

  • The reason Price of Fame ultimately becomes tiresome is our increasing awareness of how adrift the woman at its center is.

  • Each experience—like so many others in her life—left her wounded, weary, adrift.

  • If we set him adrift the poor child would starve—unless the cat got him.

  • They encountered a score of ruffians who had cut themselves adrift from the Gwalior contingent.

  • Joe was out on the boom, getting the reef-earrings adrift, when the first of the chapter of accidents came.

  • The boats no longer looked as if cutting their way through the lands, but adrift on a great lake.

  • He had made and set adrift those powder kegs, fixing them so that they would explode on touching anything.