Similar Words to Drift:
Be Adrift
Blow
Cast
Err
Float
Freewheel
Gallery
Heading
Impetus
Impulsion
Movement
Purport
Ramble
Range
Roam
Roll
Rove
Stray
Swan
Tramp
Trend
Vagabond
Wander
Examples:
1. The time. Okay for us to drift now, chief?
2. We're lost on an iceberg, and doomed to drift with the tide and melt.
3. Well, try not to drift down any further.
4. Captain, head in the direction of the flow and then drift with it.
5. Close your eyes. Drift off to sleep again, OK?
6. Then dive down and let ourselves drift through.
7. "Dive and drift with the current."
8. His heart was fiilled with longing as he watched it drift off.
Definitions of Drift:
1. A force that moves something along
2. The gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
3. A process of linguistic change over a period of time
4. A large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
5. A general tendency to change (as of opinion)
6. The pervading meaning or tenor
7. A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
8. Be in motion due to some air or water current
9. Wander from a direct course or at random
10. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
11. Vary or move from a fixed point or course
12. Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
13. Move in an unhurried fashion
14. Cause to be carried by a current
15. Drive slowly and far afield for grazing
16. Be subject to fluctuation
17. Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current