Usually means: Restore sunken vessel to surface.
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  1. refloat: Merriam-Webster
  2. refloat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refloat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. refloat: Vocabulary.com
  5. refloat: Wordnik
  6. refloat: Wiktionary
  7. Refloat, refloat: Dictionary.com
  8. Refloat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. refloat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. refloat: Rhymezone
  11. Refloat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. refloat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. refloat: FreeDictionary.org
  14. refloat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. refloat: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refloat)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to float again.
▸ noun:  The process of getting something to float again.

Similar:
reflate, reflood, reinflate, reflow, reinflame, refocillate, reflourish, reliquefy, reflower, repercolate, more...

Opposite:
sink, submerge, go under, capsize, founder

Types:
tow, towline, tugboat, barge, pontoon, float, raft, lifeboat, life preserver, more...

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Similar:
reflate, reflood, reinflate, reflow, reinflame, refocillate, reflourish, reliquefy, reflower, repercolate, more...

Opposite:
sink, submerge, go under, capsize, founder

Types:
tow, towline, tugboat, barge, pontoon, float, raft, lifeboat, life preserver, more...



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