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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 flightplay

2. decorate with feathersplay

3. grow feathersplay

  Familiarity information: FLEDGE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLEDGE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they fledge  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it fledges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: fledged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: fledged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: fledging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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