Antonyms for ballasted


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bal-uh st
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæl əst


Definition of ballasted

Origin :
  • "heavy material used to steady a ship," 1520s, from Middle English bar "bare" (see bare; in this case "mere") + last "a load, burden," or borrowed from identical terms in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian (cf. Old Danish barlast, 14c.). "Mere" because not carried for commercial purposes. Dutch balg-last "ballast," literally "belly-load," is a folk-etymology corruption.
  • As in load : verb burden, saddle
  • As in poise : verb balance, suspend
  • As in stabilize : verb make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change
Example sentences :
  • The Splash was ballasted with ten fifty-sixes, each with a ring for lifting it.
  • Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic
  • She ballasted the boat, and for Bompard she was something to lean against.
  • Extract from : « The Beach of Dreams » by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • It is ballasted with humour, too; and has a charming whimsicality.
  • Extract from : « Studies of Contemporary Poets » by Mary C. Sturgeon
  • Let us be ballasted with grace, that we be not blown over, and that we stagger not.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford
  • The sleepers were not ballasted and were anything but level.
  • Extract from : « Across America by Motor-cycle » by C. K. Shepherd
  • The track is smoothed and weeded and ballasted as if it were the London and North-Western.
  • Extract from : « My African Journey » by Winston Churchill
  • Some Indiaman, ballasted with guilders, you have heard of in shore.
  • Extract from : « Captain Kyd, Vol. II » by Joseph Holt Ingraham
  • I have pretty well now ballasted my stomach and stuffed my paunch.
  • Extract from : « Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. » by Francois Rabelais
  • When the Sangley ships are about to depart, they are ballasted and loaded with lumber.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 » by E. H. Blair

Synonyms for ballasted

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