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wafting

wafting is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

wafting (plural waftings)

  1. An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
    • The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed.2007 January 31, Bryan Miller, “In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave”, in New York Times

Forms of wafting

pluralwaftings

Phrases with wafting

Questions about wafting

What does wafting mean?
Wafting means an instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
What is wafting the present participle and gerund of?
Wafting is the present participle and gerund of waft.
What part of speech is wafting?
Wafting is a noun.
What is the plural of wafting?
The plural of wafting is waftings.

Words near wafting in the dictionary

  1. wafted
  2. wafted off
  3. wafted over
  4. wafter
  5. wafters
  6. wafting
  7. wafting off
  8. wafting over
  9. waftingly
  10. waftings
  11. wafts

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