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wung

/wʌŋ/

wung is the past participle of wing.

Meaning of wing

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.

See all 46 meanings of wing

Origin of wung

Formed by analogy with the past forms of class 3 strong verbs, such as swung and stung; compare hung.

Words formed from wung

Words that rhyme with wung

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Questions about wung

What is wung the past participle of?
Wung is the past participle of wing.
How do you pronounce wung?
Wung is pronounced /wʌŋ/.

Words near wung in the dictionary

  1. Wundt area illusion
  2. Wundt illusion
  3. Wundt's area illusion
  4. Wundt-Jastrow illusion
  5. Wundtian
  6. wung
  7. wung-out
  8. wunga
  9. Wunghnu
  10. Wungu
  11. wunkus

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