adrift
/əˈdrɪft/ adjectiveDefinition
› [never before noun] If a boat is adrift, it floats around in the water and is not tied to anything: The engine failed, leaving the boat adrift a long way off shore.
come adrift › to become loose and not joined to anything: A few bricks in the garden wall had come adrift.
(Definition of adrift adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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