Antonyms for buoy
ˈbu i, bɔɪbuoy

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1. buoy

   Antonyms:
   abash, bewilder, chagrin, confound, confuse, daunt, discompose, disconcert, dishearten, embarrass, humble, humiliate, mortify, overawe, shame

   Synonyms:
   animate, cheer, embolden, encourage, inspirit, rally, uphold

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1. buoy

   Antonyms:
   sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray

   Synonyms:
   float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire

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1. • Float
   • Mark

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1. buoyverb

   bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

2. buoyverb

   float on the surface of water

   Synonyms:
   buoy up

3. buoy, buoy upverb

   keep afloat

   "The life vest buoyed him up"

   Synonyms:
   buoy up, lighten up, lighten

4. buoyverb

   mark with a buoy

   Synonyms:
   buoy up

How to use buoy in a sentence?

1. William Cobbett:

   The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

2. Barry Svrluga:

   He was in the Navy and he was in a sub-chaser ship, he describes in these journals these night-after-night runs to the coast of France to set buoy markers.

3. Le Cun:

   I am 100% positive that there were no signs on the buoy, i know that because my boat was tied to that buoy.

4. Le Cun:

   There is an eight-foot buoy floating at the point of the intake piping, which has been in place since the plant opened, and states that people should stay 100 feet away. There are three intake pipes, which extend for a quarter mile along the floor of the ocean, and the one that the diver swam into is 16 feet in diameter with a protective cap.

5. Peter Wallerstein:

   It's in pretty good condition, it looks a little thin. It's swimming really good. We put a buoy on it last night that should slow it down, and we should be able to spot it.

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