Buoyed
[bu:i:d]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Buoy
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Examples
- When the gas holder is full it is buoyed up by the lighter gas, and occupies an elevated position, and as its supply is used up, the gas holder settles down into the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Buoyed up by water or mud, they may have got along. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was tossed into the sea near the shore, and, buoyed up by my life-belt, I managed to keep myself afloat till the waves landed me on the beach. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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