Definition of "refloated" [refloated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of refloat. (verb)

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• "Low tides for the next two weeks could prevent the ship from being refloated, meaning it might be weeks before the ship gets off the reef."
• "Unlike many others, it was refloated on the stock market early this year, leaving investors with a healthy profit."
• "My hunch, by the way, is that this story was floated (or refloated) by Hillary Clinton staff folks, probably operatives from her 2008 campaign, as a way of generating talk about her political strengths and to keep her on the radar as a politician with a future."