sets adrift
Releases to float
Sets adrift means to release something to float freely on water, or figuratively, to leave someone or something without direction or support.
A boat set adrift has no anchor or mooring.
A person set adrift has been cut loose from stability: The layoffs set thousands of workers adrift.
After her divorce, she felt completely set adrift.
- at seaConfused or perplexed
- all at seaThoroughly perplexed and lost
- unsettledNot yet resolved
- alienateCause emotional distance
- maroonDark brownish-red hue
aimless · castaway · left behind · jettison · isolate · cast out · purposeless · directionless · abandon · forsake · unmoor · strand · forlorn · estranged · untether · turns loose · disconnect · rudderless