What are the opposite words for float?
The antonyms for the word "float" are sink, submerge, and dive. When an object sinks, it goes below the surface of a liquid due to the force of gravity. In contrast, to float is to rest on the surface of the liquid. To submerge is to completely go underwater while diving is a more controlled movement in which the body enters the water with a particular purpose, such as swimming or exploring. These antonyms suggest a range of actions and movements that are opposite to floating. Depending on the context, they may convey different emotional tones or thematic meanings.
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motion
- sink.
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defeat
- finish off,
- mow down,
- torpedo,
- Shipwrecking,
- Torpedoes,
- Trashed,
- mowed down,
- mows down,
- mowing down,
- shipwrecks,
- torpedoing,
- roll back,
- prevail over,
- torpedoed,
- over-run,
- be sting,
- be-sting,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- dis comfit,
- dis comfits,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-comfits,
- finished off,
- finishes off,
- finishing off,
- out flank,
- out flanked,
- out maneuver,
- out maneuvered,
- out maneuvering,
- out-flank,
- out-flanked,
- out-flanking,
- out-flanks,
- out-maneuver,
- out-maneuvers,
- over powered,
- over powering,
- over powers,
- over running,
- over runs,
- over throw,
- over throwing,
- over thrown,
- over throws,
- over whelm,
- over whelmed,
- over whelming,
- over whelms,
- over-power,
- over-powered,
- over-powering,
- over-runs,
- over-throw,
- over-throwing,
- over-thrown,
- over-throws,
- over-whelm,
- over-whelmed,
- over-whelming,
- over-whelms,
- prevailed over,
- prevailing over,
- prevails over,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re press,
- re pressed,
- re presses,
- re pressing,
- re pulsed,
- re pulses,
- re pulsing,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- re-presses,
- re-pressing,
- re-pulsed,
- re-pulses,
- re-pulsing,
- rolled back,
- rolling back,
- rolls back,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub jugate,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- sur mount,
- sur mounted,
- sur mounting,
- sur mounts,
- sur-mount,
- sur-mounted,
- sur-mounting,
- sur-mounts,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
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sink
- cast down,
- cave in,
- shipwreck,
- Bemean,
- Disimprove,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- Sank,
- went downhill,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- force down,
- caving in,
- am reduced to,
- are reduced to,
- be mean,
- art reduced to,
- be meaning,
- be means,
- be reduced to,
- be-mean,
- be-meaning,
- be-means,
- being reduced to,
- bemeaned,
- bemeaning,
- bemeans,
- casting down,
- casts down,
- caved in,
- caves in,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de generate,
- de generated,
- de generates,
- de generating,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de mean,
- de meaning,
- de means,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- de-generate,
- de-generated,
- de-generates,
- de-generating,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- de-mean,
- de-meaning,
- de-means,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis improve,
- dis improved,
- dis improves,
- dis improving,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrates,
- dis integrating,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- dis-improve,
- dis-improved,
- dis-improves,
- dis-improving,
- dis-integrate,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrating,
- disimproved,
- disimproves,
- disimproving,
- ex cavate,
- ex-cavate,
- forced down,
- forces down,
- forcing down,
- go bottom,
- go the bottom,
- go to bottom,
- go to the bottom,
- goes bottom,
- goes the bottom,
- goes to bottom,
- goes to the bottom,
- going bottom,
- going the bottom,
- going to bottom,
- going to the bottom,
- is reduced to,
- over turn,
- over turning,
- over turns,
- over-turn,
- over-turning,
- re lapse,
- re lapsed,
- re lapses,
- re lapsing,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapsed,
- re-lapses,
- re-lapsing,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-sides,
- tipped over,
- tipping over,
- tips over,
- touch bottom,
- touched bottom,
- touches bottom,
- touching bottom,
- wast reduced to,
- went bottom,
- went the bottom,
- went to bottom,
- went to the bottom,
- were reduced to.
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drown
- knock over,
- whelm,
- Whelmed,
- Whelming,
- de luge,
- de luged,
- de luges,
- de luging,
- de-luge,
- de-luged,
- de-luges,
- de-luging,
- in undated,
- in-undated,
- knocked over,
- knocking over,
- knocks over,
- over come,
- over comes,
- over coming,
- over flow,
- over flowed,
- over flowing,
- over flown,
- over flows,
- over power,
- over-comes,
- over-coming,
- over-flow,
- over-flowed,
- over-flowing,
- over-flown,
- over-flows,
- over-powers,
- whelms.
- submerge
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swamp
- over-crowding,
- overcrowd,
- swallow up,
- Snowed,
- Snowing,
- overcrowding,
- waterlog,
- be set,
- be sets,
- be setting,
- be siege,
- be sieged,
- be sieges,
- be sieging,
- be-set,
- be-sets,
- be-setting,
- be-siege,
- be-sieged,
- be-sieges,
- be-sieging,
- over crowd,
- over crowded,
- over crowding,
- over crowds,
- over loaded,
- over loading,
- over loads,
- over-crowd,
- over-crowded,
- over-crowds,
- over-load,
- over-loaded,
- over-loading,
- over-loads,
- swallowed up,
- swallowing up,
- swallows up,
- waterlogs.
- conquer in military manner
- submerge in liquid; submerge and die
- lie on the surface
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fall in, go under
- sink.
- dunk in liquid
- overwhelm, flood
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
most elbow-to-elbow
- Antonyms:
- deserted, empty, imprecise.
