Verb
set adrift (third-person singular simple present sets adrift, present participle setting adrift, simple past and past participle set adrift)
To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it.
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. Toni Morrison