Related Words for high and dry

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laid up
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Phrase, Adjective
beached
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Verb
shipwrecked
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Adjective
castaway
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Noun
stranded
/x
Adjective
waterlogged
/xx
Adjective
dead in the water
/xx/x
Phrase, Adjective
seagoing
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Adjective
aground
x/
Adverb
outboard
/x
Noun
overboard
/xx
Adverb
adrift
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Adverb
broke
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Verb
fished out
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Phrase, Adjective
waterborne
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Noun
sailed
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Verb
marine
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Noun
shipped
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Verb
offshore
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Noun
wild
/
Adjective
stricken
/x
Adjective
hulled
/
Adjective
seaborne
/x
Name
awash
x/
Noun
sprung
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Verb
freshwater
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Noun
stiff
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Adjective
shored
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Verb
drafted
/x
Verb
crank
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Noun
grounded
/x
Verb
onshore
/x
Adjective
in the same boat
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Phrase, Adjective
rigged
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Adjective
onboard
/x
Adjective
floating
/x
Noun
footloose
/x
Adjective
light
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Noun
before the mast
x/x/
Phrase, Adjective
submarine
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Noun
swept
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Verb
seafaring
/xx
Noun
steamboats
/x
Noun
reef
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Noun
fly
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
shipboard
/x
Noun
high
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Adjective
seasick
/x
Adjective
touch and go
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Phrase, Adjective, Verb
taken aback
/xx/
Phrase, Adjective
cranky
/x
Adjective
subsea
x/
Noun
footed
/x
Adjective
shoal
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Noun
abnormally
x/xx
Adverb
above
x/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
abundant
x/x
Adjective
accelerated
x/xxx
Adjective
achievable
x/xx
Adjective
acute
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
addition
x/x
Noun
advanced
x/
Adjective
aggregate
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
air
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Noun, Verb
alcoholic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
aloft
x/
Adverb
aloud
x/
Adverb, Adjective
altitude
/xx
Noun
alto
/x
Noun
ambitious
x/x
Adjective
ammo
/x
Noun, Verb
amounted
x/x
Verb
anhydrous
x/x
Adjective
antiaircraft
xx/x
Noun, Adjective
arid
/x
Adjective
ashes
/x
Noun
asylum
x/x
Noun
ato
/x
Name
attainable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
average
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
back
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Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
baked
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Adjective
baroness
/xx
Noun
barren
/x
Adjective, Noun
best
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
big
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
blast
/
Noun, Verb
bred
/
Noun
broad
/
Adjective, Noun
brut
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Adjective
buoyant
/x
Adjective
burnt
/
Adjective
busted
/x
Adjective
calculated
/xxx
Adjective
can
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Verb, Noun
capacity
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
carbonic
x/x
Adjective
ceiling
/x
Noun
chief
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
clean
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Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
climactic
x/x
Adjective
climb
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Verb, Noun
close
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
clothes
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Noun
coarse
/
Adjective
coke
/
Noun, Verb
cold
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
commanding
x/x
Adjective, Noun
commissioner
x/xx
Noun
con
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Noun, Verb
condescending
xx/x
Adjective
connaught
/x
Name
considerable
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
contest
/x
Noun, Verb
cool
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
costly
/x
Adjective
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
cure
/
Noun, Verb
curt
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
damp
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
deadweight
/x
Noun
dear
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
deep
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
degree
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Noun
demanding
x/x
Adjective
densely
/x
Adverb
desert
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
desiccated
/xxx
Adjective
diminished
x/x
Adjective
discharge
x/
Noun, Verb
distinguished
x/x
Adjective
ditch
/
Noun, Verb
dominating
/xxx
Adjective
dramatic
x/x
Adjective
dredge
/
Noun, Verb
drink
/
Noun, Verb
drug
/
Noun, Verb
dry out
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Phrase, Verb
dry up
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Phrase, Verb
dryland
/x
Noun
dryly
/x
Adverb
dull
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
dust
/
Noun, Verb
ebb
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
elated
x/x
Adjective
elementary
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
elevate
/xx
Verb, Adjective
eminent
/xx
Adjective
empty
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
enormous
x/x
Adjective
esa
/x
Name
esteemed
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Adjective
euphoric
x/x
Adjective, Noun
ex
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
exacting
x/x
Adjective
exalted
x/x
Adjective
excellent
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
excess
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
excessive
x/x
Adjective
exorbitant
x/xx
Adjective
expensive
x/x
Adjective
exposure
x/x
Noun
extensive
x/x
Adjective
extreme
x/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
extremely
x/x
Adverb
falsetto
x/x
Noun, Verb
far
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
farmed
/
Verb, Adjective
fast
/
Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
favorable
/xxx
Adjective
fig
/
Name, Verb
firm
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
flood
/
Noun, Verb
forceful
/x
Adjective
fort
/
Noun, Verb
forte
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
fortress
/x
Noun, Verb
forwards
/x
Adverb, Adjective
frequent
/x
Adjective, Verb
full
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
fumes
/
Noun
gan
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Noun, Verb
gao
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Name
general
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
generous
/xx
Adjective
go
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
graduate
/xx
Noun, Adjective, Verb
gran
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Noun
grand
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Noun, Adjective
grave
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
great
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
greatly
/x
Adverb
hair
/
Noun, Verb
halt
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
hard
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
harsh
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
haut
/
Noun, Adjective
haute
/
Adjective
head
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
headspace
/x
Noun, Verb
heat
/
Noun, Verb
heavily
/xx
Adverb
heavy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
hebrew
/x
Name, Adjective
hefty
/x
Adjective, Noun
height
/
Noun
heightened
/x
Adjective