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Adjective drifting has 2 senses

aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
adrift, drifting - afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"
Antonym: aground (indirect, via sunken, afloat)
Antonyms: sunken, submerged (indirect, via afloat, aground)

Noun drifting has 1 sense

drifting - aimless wandering from place to place
--₁ is a kind of wandering, roving, vagabondage

Derived forms: verb drift₂, verb drift₃

Verb drift has 10 senses

float, drift, be adrift, blow - be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived form: noun drift₁
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stray, err, drift - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
--₂ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived forms: noun driftage₁, noun drift₂, noun drifting₁
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roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
--₃ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived forms: noun drifter₁, noun drifting₁
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drift - vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher"
--₄ is one way to vary
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freewheel, drift - live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
--₅ is one way to exist, survive, live, subsist
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drift - move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
--₆ is one way to circulate
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drift - cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
--₇ is one way to float

Derived form: noun drift₁
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drift - drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards"
--₈ is one way to crop, graze, pasture
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drift - be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
--₉ is one way to change

Derived form: noun drift₅
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drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
--₁₀ is one way to accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass

Derived form: noun drift₄
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