adrift
uhd rift
- s aimlessly drifting
- s afloat on the surface of a body of water
after the storm the boats were adrift - r floating freely; not anchored
the boat wasset adrift - r off course, wandering aimlessly
there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift
- The onset of World War II cuts a young Jewish boy off from his family and sets him adrift among the peasants of rural Poland.
- Reyes' death, as well as that of the FARC's top leader and founder, Manuel Marulanda, also in March, seemed to have left the guerrillas and their 44-year-old insurgency adrift and .
- He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard.