casting adrift
Cutting someone free
Casting adrift is setting something loose to float without anchor or direction.
A boat cast adrift has no mooring; a person cast adrift has been abandoned or cut loose from support: After the merger, hundreds of employees were cast adrift.
The phrase suggests vulnerability—left to drift wherever currents carry you.
- marooningAbandoning in isolation
- lost at seaMissing in ocean waters
- rootlessnessState of having no anchor
- purposelessnessState of lacking intention
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
out to sea · left behind · aimlessness · unmooring · estrangement · wandering · jetsam · all at sea · flotsam · shipwreck · jettisoning · severance · alienation · uncertainty · exile · rejection · solitude · disowned
casting adriftmooring
Vessel's secured resting place
anchoring · tethering · securing · fastening · tying down
casting adriftrescuing
Saving from danger
sheltering · saving · taking in · protecting · looking after
casting adriftrescuing
Saving from danger
saving · retrieving · recovering · picking up · taking in
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