drift

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Plain form
drift

Third-person singular
drifts

Past tense
drifted

Past participle
drifted

Present participle
drifting

  1. An action when an object moves towards the earth slowly.
    The plane ran out of fuel, therefore it had to drift slowly down to the nearby airport.

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