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fledge

/flɛd͡ʒ/

fledge verb: to care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.

Verb

fledge (third-person singular simple present fledges, present participle fledging, simple past and past participle fledged)

  1. (transitive) To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
  2. (intransitive) To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
  3. (transitive) To decorate with feathers.
  4. (intransitive) To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.

Adjective

fledge (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
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fledge meaning in Urdu and Kannada

fledge in Urdu

پر اگنا, پر لگانا

fledge in Kannada

ಗರಿಮೂಡು, ಗರಿಯಿಡು

Forms of fledge

third-person singular presentfledges
present participlefledging
past participlefledged
pastfledged
alternative form (obsolete, dialectal)flidge
alternative form (obsolete, dialectal)flig
alternative form (obsolete, dialectal)flish
alternative form (obsolete, dialectal)flitch
alternative form (obsolete, dialectal)flush

Origin of fledge

From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)

Words formed from fledge

Words that rhyme with fledge

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Questions about fledge

What does fledge mean?
Fledge means to care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
What is fledge in Urdu?
Fledge in Urdu is پر اگنا, پر لگانا. See Fledge meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is fledge?
Fledge can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce fledge?
Fledge is pronounced /flɛd͡ʒ/.
What is the past tense of fledge?
The past tense of fledge is fledged.

Words near fledge in the dictionary

  1. fled
  2. Fled Cruz
  3. Fleda
  4. Fledborough
  5. fleddest
  6. fledge
  7. fledged
  8. fledgedness
  9. fledgeless
  10. fledgeling
  11. fledgelings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fledge (page history and authors); fledge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fledge (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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