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What (who) is cut adrift - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Adrift (film); Adrift (disambiguation); Adrift (2009 film)
Adrift
·adv & ·adj Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
adrift
adj., adv. to cast, turn adrift
adrift
1.
If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, v n ADJ
2.
If someone is adrift, they feel alone with no clear idea of what they should do.
Amy had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, v n ADJ
3.
If something comes adrift, it is no longer attached to an object that it should be part of. (BRIT)
Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
= loose
ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ after v
Examples of use of cut adrift
1. With a Conservative party that has seemed to want only to recreate the 1'50s, we are cut adrift without a liferaft.
2. The evidence reportedly points to them having been cut adrift in the Atlantic and left to drift off to a slow, painful end.
3. Cut adrift from its Al Qaeda sponsors, JI appears to be splintered by the loss of its leaders and internal divisions over attacks on civilians.
4. "They were disabled" with gunfire, "cut adrift, and sunk as hazards to navigation." In the latest incident, the pirates hijacked the Japanese–owned ship Golden Nori in October and released it Wednesday, the last of several captured vessels.
5. In partnerships, those in squeaky–clean bits of the business might grumble at bearing the costs of others‘ transgressions, but the thought that partners facing prosecution will now be cut adrift might cause some to wonder what partnership means.