Synonyms for drifted

Grammar : Verb

Spell : drift

Phonetic Transcription : drɪft

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Définition of drifted

Origin : c.1300, literally "a being driven" (of snow, etc.); not recorded in Old English; either a suffixed form of drive (v.) (cf. thrift/thrive) or borrowed from Old Norse drift "snow drift," or Middle Dutch drift "pasturage, drove, flock," both from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (cf. Danish and Swedish drift, German Trift), from PIE root *dhreibh- "to drive, push" (see drive (v.)). Sense of "what one is getting at" is from 1520s. Meaning "controlled slide of a sports car" attested by 1955.

verb move aimlessly

Example sentences :

But now the picture that drifted through his mind was still more horrible.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

But it was not to be drifted up with the sand of forgetfulness!
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

From desiring the farm, insensibly Crane drifted into coveting the mare.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Every one else seemed to have drifted into an adjoining room.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

The craft made but two raps on the bar, when she drifted clear.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

He drifted slowly on until the town and the bluffs sank in the darkness.
Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler

I am such a waif and stray everywhere, that I am liable to be drifted where any current may set.'
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

When within a few rods of each other we ceased paddling, and drifted by with the momentum.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

It was a filthy place and snow had drifted in through the openings in the roof and side.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

By instinct, I suppose, I drifted towards my ante bellum quarters.
Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various

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