fledge
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /flɛdʒ/
fledge (fledges, present participle fledging; past and past participle fledged)
- (transitive) To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
- (intransitive) To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
- (transitive) To decorate with feathers.
- (intransitive) To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
fledge (not comparable)
- (archaic) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- his shoulders, fledge with wings
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