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Collocations for adrift - adj.

VERBS

be | come
I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
cast sb/sth, cut sb/sth, set sb/sth
Their boat had been set adrift.

PREP.

from
(figurative) She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.
in
(figurative) cast adrift in a vulgar, materialistic society

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