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refloat

verb

Etymology

From re- + float.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *flutōną✻ — “to float”
  3. inherited from *flotōn✻
  4. inherited from flotian — “to float”
  5. inherited from floten
  6. prefixed as refloat — “re- + float”

Definitions

  1. To cause to float again.

    • Removing fuel from the sunken ship will make it easier to refloat it.

  2. To float again.

  3. The process of getting something to float again.

    • A small crowd on the docks watched the attempted refloat of the ship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for refloat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA