All ballasting synonyms

verb ballasting

• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• lade — to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
• stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• carry — If you carry something, you take it with you, holding it so that it does not touch the ground.
• cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
• pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
• stack — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
• store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
• wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• sustain — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• surfeit — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
• weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
• glut — to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
• freight — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
• mass — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
• top — Technical/Office Protocol
• flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
• ballast — Ballast is any substance that is used in ships or hot-air balloons to make them heavier and more stable. Ballast usually consists of water, sand, or iron.
• oversupply — an excessive supply.
• stow — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
• bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
• heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
• gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
• lumber — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• weigh — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
• chock — a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
• containerize — to convey (cargo) in standard-sized containers
• brood — A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
• stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• float — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
• steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.