Another word for afloat

afloat Synonyms

afloat

modif.

adrift, drifting, floating, unfastened, loose, untied, unfixed, on the seas, at sea, on board ship, sailing, seaworthy, flooded, on the high seas, in service, commissioned.

Antonyms ashore*, docked, beached.

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That much of the yield of 1906 was afloat or undespatched at the close of that year.
If Lancaster should justify the malevolent rumours that were afloat by making a snatch at the crown, the last state of the realm might be worse than the first.
Navy and is the oldest, technically active warship afloat.
The customs and political surveillance along the coast is entrusted, afloat, to the Massawa naval station, and, ashore, to a coastguard company 400 strong stationed at Meder, with detachments at Assab, Massawa, Raheita, Edd and Taclai.
The partial triumph of this principle was secure, inasmuch as the majority of established powers in church and state felt threatened by the revolutionary opinions afloat in Europe.

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