noun
- the act or process of making a ship or boat float again after it has run aground or sunk
Usage: nautical
verb
- present participle of refloat: making a ship or boat float again after it has run aground or sunk
Usage: nautical
Examples
- The refloating of the cargo ship took three days.
- Coast Guard crews are refloating the stranded vessel.
- The refloating operation required specialized equipment.
- They succeeded in refloating the yacht at high tide.
- Refloating the submarine was a complex engineering challenge.
- The company specializes in refloating grounded ships.