Float and Sunk

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Float verb - To rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air.

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Sunk is an antonym for float.

Nearby Words: floating, floated, floater, floatable, floaty

Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.

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Float is an antonym for sunk in topics: deteriorate, fall, fall in, be humble or humbled.

XIII - its warhead had broken on contact and sunk, and the rest of the torpedo had surfaced, becoming effectively a float.

Source: Reliably Unreliable Guns

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