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upwafting

upwafting is the present participle and gerund of upwaft.

Meaning of upwaft

Verb

upwaft (third-person singular simple present upwafts, present participle upwafting, simple past and past participle upwafted)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To waft upward.
    • from the plain
      Upwafted by the winds the smoke aspired1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

Questions about upwafting

What is upwafting the present participle and gerund of?
Upwafting is the present participle and gerund of upwaft.

Words near upwafting in the dictionary

  1. upvotes
  2. upvoting
  3. UPW
  4. upwaft
  5. upwafted
  6. upwafting
  7. upwafts
  8. upward
  9. upward compatibility
  10. upward compatible
  11. upward lightning

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