adrift

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

adrift BrE [əˈdrɪft] NAmE [əˈdrɪft] adjective not before noun
1. if a boat or a person in a boat is adrift, the boat is not tied to anything or is floating without being controlled by anyone
•The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.
2. (BrE) (of a person)feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life
•young people adrift in the big city
3. no longer attached or fixed in the right position
•I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.
• (figurative)She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.
• (figurative)Our plans had gone badly adrift.
4. ~ (of sb/sth) (BrE) (in sport)behind the score or position of your opponents
•The team are now just six points adrift of the leaders.
Idiom: ↑set somebody adrift

Word Origin:
[adrift] late 16th cent.: from a-, ‘on, in’ + ↑drift.

Example Bank:
•I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
•She felt cast adrift in a vulgar, materialistic society.
•The team are now just six points adrift of the leaders= behind their score.
•Their boat had been set adrift.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected