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refloating

refloating is the present participle and gerund of refloat.

Meaning of refloat

Verb

refloat (third-person singular simple present refloats, present participle refloating, simple past and past participle refloated)

  1. (transitive) To cause to float again.
    • Removing fuel from the sunken ship will make it easier to refloat it.
  2. (intransitive) 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

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Questions about refloating

What is refloating the present participle and gerund of?
Refloating is the present participle and gerund of refloat.

Words near refloating in the dictionary

  1. reflips
  2. refloat
  3. refloatation
  4. refloatations
  5. refloated
  6. refloating
  7. refloats
  8. reflocculation
  9. reflocculations
  10. reflog
  11. reflogged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refloating (page history and authors); refloat (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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