EGAVE

drifting

About 2.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
    The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.
  2. adjective Without direction, focus, or goal.
  3. noun The act by which something drifts.
  4. noun That which drifts.
  5. noun A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
  6. verb present participle and gerund of drift

Similar words

adrift afloat floating vagabond vagrant unsettled aimless sliding driftwood coaster

Often followed by

in into away down off to from through on

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