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adv (English)
1. (figurative, of ideas, information, etc.) In or into circulation or currency.Examples: "setting a lie aflote"; "[…] I shall not be judged fairly; it will get afloat that I am not a good girl,"; "[…] as this example set the discourse about witchcraft afloat, some people, troubled with a similar complaint, began to fancy themselves bewitched too."figurativelynot-comparableusually
2. (obsolete, figurative, of an emotional state) In or into a condition of stimulation, arousal, confusion, bewilderment, etc.Examples: "No angry passions rise to disturb the silent progress of the work, […] no irritable humours are set afloat:"; "[…] they knew how to abstain from the overdose of liquor that sets the brain afloat and loosens the tongue."Synonyms: at seafigurativelynot-comparableobsolete
adj (English)
1. (figurative) Covered, overspread, filled (with or in something).Examples: "The larch-wood was afloat with clear, lyric green,"; "The world was afloat in primrose light, pale and exquisite."; "The lobby was afloat with men, single and married, meeting pretty women in bright dresses and pants suits, single and married."Synonyms: alive, awashfigurativelynot-comparable
2. (of an organization) Having just enough resources to continue to operate; barely able to pay expenses; (of a private individual, family, etc.) keeping one's head above water.Examples: "The donation will keep our business afloat for quite a while."; "[…] you nede not to be sorye, as thoughe your frendely liberalitie had not be very acceptable vnto me. I haue receaued euery thing, and now I am afloate, by your lyberall sendyng."; "He […] endeavoured, by forcing himself into a lower path of life than any he had hitherto trod, to keep himself afloat, with the portion of some tradesman’s daughter, whom he meant to espouse."Synonyms: on one's feet, solventAntonyms: bankrupt, insolventnot-comparable
3. (figurative, of ideas, information, etc.) Believed or talked about by many people; being passed from person to person.Examples: "The supervisor was never fired, though countless accusations of dishonesty were afloat."; "[…] she and I were accepted, whatever ugly rumours had been afloat in the past year, as man and wife."Synonyms: circulating, in circulation, currentfigurativelynot-comparableusually
4. (obsolete, figurative, of an emotional state) Stimulated, aroused, activated.Examples: "You’ll find, when once my passion is afloat, / The soul of Caesar, in a petticoat!"; "My half frozen blood and my fears again afloat made me tremble through every limb;"figurativelynot-comparableobsolete
5. (obsolete, figurative) In a state of confusion, bewilderment, or distraction.Examples: "1789, Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield dated August 1789, in Miscellaneous Works, London: A. Strahan et al., 1796, p. 201, I know not what to say; my mind is all afloat; yet you will not reproach me with caprice or inconstancy."; "[…] he could correctly analyze and parse any sentence you could give him, no matter how complex; but when it came to talking he was all afloat."Synonyms: at sea, bewildered, confused, distractedfigurativelynot-comparableobsolete
prep (English)
1. (obsolete) Floating upon.Examples: "early 1600s, John Webster and William Rowley, The Thracian Wonder, London: Thomas Johnson, 1661, Act I, Scene 1, But Huswife, as for you, / You with your Brat, wee’l send afloat the Main,"; "[…] great wee see must be the art and cunning of that man, that keeps him afloat the streame of Soveraigne favour,"obsolete
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