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Synonyms for afloat
The synonym for afloat recorded in this bank is flooded, in the sense "covered with water". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for afloat
- floodedadjective, in the sense "covered with water"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day afloat is audited in a second meaning.
covered with water
Water poured in until the cabin floor was afloat.
The true synonym
flooded
Same sentence, swapped: Water poured in until the cabin floor was flooded.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- adrift
- fickle
- rambling
Where afloat turns up in the game
afloat is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play afloat
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