waft
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
waft (wafts, present participle wafting; past and past participle wafted)
- (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
- A breeze came in through the open window and wafted her sensuous perfume into my eager nostrils.
- (intransitive) To be move#Verb|moved, or to pass#Verb|pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: [s.n.], OCLC 497010563 ↗, Act III, scene i; republished as “Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy”, in Walter Scott, editor, The Works of John Dryden, now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq., volume V, London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street, by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh, 1808, OCLC 317070632 ↗, page 226 ↗:
- Unhappy Aureng-Zebe is in disgrace; / And your Morat, proclaimed the successor, / Is called, to awe the city with his power. / Those trumpets his triumphant entry tell, / And now the shouts waft near the citadel.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: [s.n.], OCLC 497010563 ↗, Act III, scene i; republished as “Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy”, in Walter Scott, editor, The Works of John Dryden, now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq., volume V, London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street, by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh, 1808, OCLC 317070632 ↗, page 226 ↗:
- To give notice#Noun|notice to by wave#Verb|waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
- German: treiben, wehen, wallen, wabern, streichen, umwehen, tragen, getragen werden
- Russian: дуть
- Spanish: revolotear, levitar
- German: signalisieren, senden, aussenden, fortsenden, winken
waft (plural wafts)
- A light breeze.
- Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air.
- (nautical) A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.
- German: Hauch
- Spanish: vaharada
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