winging

Verb

wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (colloquial) wung)

1. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
2. (intransitive) To fly.
   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168
3. (intransitive) To travel swiftly.
   • He had pulled up so expertly that the man escaped, so smoothly that not a passenger was jarred, and now he sat with a dazed and vacant expression on his face, leaning forward on his steering wheel, while caustic inquiry and retort winged unheeded up and down the line behind him.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
4. (transitive) To add a wing (extra part) to.
5. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
   • I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
6. (transitive) To throw.

   Synonyms:

   fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

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