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ballasted

See definition of ballasted on Dictionary.com
  • as inload
  • as inpoise
  • as instabilize

synonyms for ballasted

  • carry
  • cram
  • fill
  • lade
  • pack
  • pile
  • stack
  • store
  • stuff
  • arrange
  • ballast
  • bear
  • charge
  • chock
  • choke
  • containerize
  • flood
  • freight
  • glut
  • gorge
  • heap
  • jam
  • lumber
  • mass
  • oversupply
  • place
  • stow
  • surfeit
  • swamp
  • top
  • weigh
  • weight
  • heap up
  • pile it on
  • pile up
  • pour in
  • put aboard
  • ram in
  • top off
  • weigh down

antonyms for ballasted

MOST RELEVANT
  • use
  • abstain
  • diet
  • disarrange
  • disorder
  • fast
  • lose
  • aid
  • assist
  • benefit
  • bless
  • help
  • relieve
  • unburden
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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 STACPOOLE
She had been literally ballasted with silver, and carried also several precious boxes of gold and jewels.
THE ONTARIO READERS: FOURTH BOOKVARIOUS
His corpulency would always be hinting to you that he was too trimly built, too well ballasted, to be in danger.
THE SILVER POPPYARTHUR STRINGER
By being properly ballasted, a boat can pass either through or over a sea without being driven astern.
A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLANDW.H.G. KINGSTON
As 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. KINGSTON
It is important that a lifeboat should be well ballasted, especially the larger sailing-boats.
A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLANDW.H.G. KINGSTON
Then sometime later the road-bed is ballasted and the line made ready for heavy operation.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORD
On 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 VERNE
He 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 VIVIAN
The 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
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