afloat
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2.0
- adjective
- /əˈfloʊt/
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flotante
- The ship was afloat, apparently undamaged, in an unknown body of water.
- stay afloat
- still afloat
- keep afloat
So let me remind people that the Hindenburg was kept afloat by hydrogen.
- So let me remind people that the Hindenburg was kept afloat by hydrogen.
- And it has more foam all around so that if there's a lot of ways it's just keeping her afloat, she's getting that extra support that she needs.
- We think we can stay afloat, but we got a leak over here.
Examples
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She's still afloat.
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After the storm, the damaged boat was still afloat on the water's surface.
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-We're still afloat, are we not?
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Was some ice still afloat there?
Fiction book (1995) -
Seconds later, the bow pulled free of the water, and they were afloat again.
Fiction book (1996) -
After a quarter of an hour, her boat was afloat.
Fiction book (1996) -
And miraculously, this boat is still afloat.
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But they'd been in a hurry, and the raft was still afloat.
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They grab onto each other and form a raft and this raft will keep them afloat because the large amount of air trapped between their body surfaces.
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Their mood had changed; this was exhilaration, to be weightlessly afloat above the bright cloud-marked globe, with continent and ocean wheeling massively below.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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5.3
Able to float in water or rise in air
Floating on water without sinking
A craft or object that floats on water like a boat
Antonyms
How Floating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Afloat comes from the old a- meaning 'on' plus float meaning 'to float', so it literally means 'on the water' or 'held up by water'. That's why a boat or thing stays afloat when it does not sink.