adrift : Idioms & Phrases

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be adrift

  • verb be in motion due to some air or water current
    blow; float; drift.
    • 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
WordNet

To turn adrift

  • to cast off, to cease to care for.
Webster 1913