💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Set adrift"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| cast adriftverb | (transitive) To abandon a ship at sea |
| cast awayverb | (transitive) To discard. |
| put to seaverb | (nautical, of a boat or ship) To leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing. |
| ship outverb | (transitive) To send, especially by means of a transport vehicle. |
| abandon shipverb | (by extension) To leave a person or organization when things become difficult. |
| loosenverb | (transitive) To make loose. |
| put forthverb | (transitive) To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). |
| cast offverb | (transitive) To discard or reject something. |
| stand outverb | (intransitive) To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to the surroundings. |
| bear off fromverb | (nautical) To stand further off from (a ship) |
| uncast | Not having been cast (in various senses). |
| jump shipverb | (figurative) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly. |
| straynoun | Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray. |
| scuttleverb | (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry. |
| abandonverb | (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. |
| shipnoun | (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. |
| disembarkverb | (intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft. |
| bear awayverb | (nautical) To steer away from the wind |
| bring offverb | To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult. |
| run agroundverb | (intransitive, of a vessel) To be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float. |
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