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wafted

wafted is the simple past and past participle of waft.

Meaning of waft

Verb

waft (third-person singular simple present wafts, present participle wafting, simple past and past participle wafted)

  1. (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.
    Synonyms:
    breathe
  2. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
    • 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...
  3. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
    • […] but ſoft: who wafts vs yonder.c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac...

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Words formed from wafted

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Questions about wafted

What is wafted the simple past and past participle of?
Wafted is the simple past and past participle of waft.

Words near wafted in the dictionary

  1. waft
  2. waft off
  3. waft over
  4. waftage
  5. waftages
  6. wafted
  7. wafted off
  8. wafted over
  9. wafter
  10. wafters
  11. wafting

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