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maft

maft verb: to drift.

Verb

maft (third-person singular simple present mafts, present participle mafting, simple past and past participle mafted)

  1. (Northern England) To drift
  2. (Northern England, intransitive) To be stifled or overpowered by a lack of air, the heat, etc.; to be out of breath.
  3. (Northern England, intransitive) To be hot (temperature-wise).

maft meaning in Bengali

maft in Bengali

উড়ে যাওয়া, জমা হওয়া, হাঁপিয়ে ওঠা, গরম হওয়া

Synonyms of maft

Forms of maft

third-person singular presentmafts
present participlemafting
past participlemafted
pastmafted
alternative formmeft

Origin of maft

Possibly from an alteration of Middle English maght, mauȝt (“might”). More at might. Compare Scots maucht (“to deprive of strength, wear out, exhaust, defeat”, verb).

Questions about maft

What does maft mean?
Maft means to drift.
What is maft in Bengali?
Maft in Bengali is উড়ে যাওয়া, জমা হওয়া, হাঁপিয়ে ওঠা. See Maft meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is maft?
Maft is a verb.
What is the past tense of maft?
The past tense of maft is mafted.

Words near maft in the dictionary

  1. mafoprazine
  2. mafosfamide
  3. MAFP
  4. Mafra
  5. MAFs
  6. maft
  7. mafted
  8. mafting
  9. maftir
  10. maftirim
  11. maftirs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maft (page history and authors); maft (Bengali 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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