ADRIFT

ADRIFT', adjective or adverb [See Drive. adrift is the participle of the verb.]Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift

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adrift. Adrift, a. floating at random, at large

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A‐drift″ (�), adv. & a. [[Pref. a- (for on) + drift.]] Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.