opening the floodgates (verb) breathe: take air in and let out
Sinonime: abandoned, banished, deported,
derelict,
desolate,
destitute, disinherited, displaced, dispossessed, down-and-out, estranged, exiled,
forlorn,
forsaken, friendless, houseless,
itinerant,
outcast, refugee, uncared-for, unhoused,
unsettled, unwelcome,
vagabond,
vagrant,
wandering, without a roof
Antonime: settled