run adrift

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run adrift (third-person singular simple present runs adrift, present participle running adrift, simple past ran adrift, past participle run adrift)

  1. To continue without being steered (usually having been abandoned). (of a ship)
  2. (figurative, by extension) To be aimless or pointless; to make no progress.