cast adrift English

Meaning cast adrift meaning

What does cast adrift mean?

cast adrift verb

— (transitive) To abandon a ship at sea

— (transitive) To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them

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How do I use cast adrift in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Put him in a launch and cast him adrift.

News and current affairs

For it is in no European country's interest, or in the interest of the EU as a whole, that Central and Eastern Europe feel that they have been cast adrift or that Germany and Russia fixate on each other in this time of crisis.