Word.ws English Dictionary

clipping the wings of

clipping the wings of is the present participle and gerund of clip the wings of.

Meaning of clip the wings of

Verb

clip the wings of (third-person singular simple present clips the wings of, present participle clipping the wings of, simple past and past participle clipped the wings of)

  1. To trim the flight feathers of a bird, usually poultry, to prevent flight.
  2. (figuratively) To prevent from acting freely.
    • "[...] Clipping the wings of London is not the answer if you want other cities and regions to soar."2021 December 1, Paul Stephen, “Network News: TfL funding crisis: Mayor fears cuts to Tube services”, in RAIL, page 29, comment by Mayor Sadiq Khan

Questions about clipping the wings of

What is clipping the wings of the present participle and gerund of?
Clipping the wings of is the present participle and gerund of clip the wings of.

Words near clipping the wings of in the dictionary

  1. clippies
  2. clipping
  3. clipping it
  4. clipping someone's wings
  5. clipping the church
  6. clipping the wings of
  7. Clippinger
  8. Clippingers
  9. clippingly
  10. clippings
  11. clippity-clop

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clipping the wings of (page history and authors); clip the wings of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “clipping the wings of.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clipping_the_wings_of. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.