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FLEDGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fledge mean?
• FLEDGE (verb)
The verb FLEDGE has 3 senses:
1. feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight
Familiarity information: FLEDGE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: fledged
Past participle: fledged
-ing form: fledging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "fledge" is one way to...):
bring up; nurture; parent; raise; rear (look after a child until it is an adult)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Decorate with feathers
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
fledge; flight
Context example:
fledge an arrow
Hypernyms (to "fledge" is one way to...):
adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Grow feathers
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
feather; fledge
Context example:
The young sparrows are fledging already
Hypernyms (to "fledge" is one way to...):
acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples
Brown dwarfs are intermediate between planets and fully-fledged stars.
(Astronomers Identify Purest, Most Massive Brown Dwarf, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Ha! mon petit, cried the bowman, you take me back to the days when you were new fledged, as sweet a little chick as ever pecked his way out of a monkish egg.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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