Thesaurus / ballasted
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synonyms for ballasted
- preserve
- secure
- fix
- steady
- maintain
- sustain
- balance
- firm
- stiffen
- set
- counterbalance
- buttress
- counterpoise
- support
- poise
- freeze
- settle
- bolt
- equalize
- uphold
- fasten
- ossify
- brace
- prop
- ballast
- firm up
- stabilitate
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antonyms for ballasted
MOST RELEVANT
- shake
- change
- unfasten
- open
- fall
- drop
- let go
- melt
- forget
- neglect
- hurt
- wobble
- vary
- unlock
- release
- weaken
- let down
- soften
- loosen
- liquefy
- ignore
- destroy
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How to use ballasted in a sentence
She ballasted the boat, and for Bompard she was something to lean against.
THE BEACH OF DREAMSH. DE VERE STACPOOLEShe had been literally ballasted with silver, and carried also several precious boxes of gold and jewels.
THE ONTARIO READERS: FOURTH BOOKVARIOUSHis corpulency would always be hinting to you that he was too trimly built, too well ballasted, to be in danger.
THE SILVER POPPYARTHUR STRINGERBy being properly ballasted, a boat can pass either through or over a sea without being driven astern.
A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLANDW.H.G. KINGSTONAs the boat must be well ballasted, she must have limited breadth of beam, as also limited side buoyancy.
A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLANDW.H.G. KINGSTONIt is important that a lifeboat should be well ballasted, especially the larger sailing-boats.
A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLANDW.H.G. KINGSTONThen sometime later the road-bed is ballasted and the line made ready for heavy operation.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDOn this occasion she carried, besides, a little parachute, ballasted by a firework terminating in a ball with silver rain.
A VOYAGE IN A BALLOON (1852)JULES VERNEHe built a second albatross, and on the advice of his friends ballasted it for flight instead of travelling in it himself.
A HISTORY OF AERONAUTICSE. CHARLES VIVIANThe torpedo can be ballasted and provided with fins to offer the necessary resistance to the action of the propelling machinery.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 467, DECEMBER 13, 1884VARIOUS