refloat
refloat verb: to cause to float again.
Verb
refloat (third-person singular simple present refloats, present participle refloating, simple past and past participle refloated)
- To cause to float again.
- Removing fuel from the sunken ship will make it easier to refloat it.
- The Canadian Coast Guard says a stranded container barge has been refloated, after running aground off Quadra Island over the weekend. […] Divers have been working since the weekend to assess the damage and determine the best way to refloat the vessel.2019 November 15, Simon Little, “Stranded container barge refloated, moved after running aground on Quadra Island”, in Global News
- To float again.
- Overnight, water was pumped into dammed sections created by the Canal and River Trust on Tuesday, and as of 06:00 on Wednesday, water levels were recovering.
"This means that one of the boats near to the breach site, plus six further up the canal, are now beginning to refloat," it [the council]...2025, Chloe Hughes, Boat stranded on canal hole edge pulled to safety (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x0vqvnq4o
- Overnight, water was pumped into dammed sections created by the Canal and River Trust on Tuesday, and as of 06:00 on Wednesday, water levels were recovering.
Noun
refloat (plural refloats)
- The process of getting something to float again.
- A small crowd on the docks watched the attempted refloat of the ship.
refloat meaning in Bengali
refloat in Bengali
- কোনো কিছুকে পুনরায় ভাসানো
Forms of refloat
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | refloats |
| present participle | refloating |
| past participle | refloated |
| past | refloated |
| Noun | |
| plural | refloats |
Origin of refloat
From re- + float.
Words that rhyme with refloat
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- oat
- quote
- connote
- groat
- remote
- scrote
- tote
- bote
- capote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- mote
- smote
- solar boat
- undercoat
- cote
- demote
- gloat
- pote
- rote
- undernote
- wrote
- yote
- blót
- confidence vote
- disease boat
- end of quote
- end quote
- entrecôte
- flote
- frote
- ignote
- isot
- lote
- loth
- misquote
- moth
- phot
- recoat
- rewrote
- shoat
- stoat
- swagger coat
- troat
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- underquote
- underwrote
Questions about refloat
- What does refloat mean?
- Refloat means to cause to float again.
- What is refloat in Bengali?
- Refloat in Bengali is কোনো কিছুকে পুনরায় ভাসানো. See Refloat meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is refloat?
- Refloat can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of refloat?
- The past tense of refloat is refloated.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: refloat (page history and authors); refloat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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