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Drop anchor Moderate

Drop anchor has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

secure a vessel with an anchor

"We anchored at Baltimore"

2

To release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
fasten
Rhyming Words
hor chor thor shor khor abhor ichor ephor johor luthor author amthor phthor rethor hathor senhor anchor anaphor biophor camphor
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