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Synonyms for waft

Grammar : Verb
Spell : waft, wahft
Phonetic Transcription : wæft, wɑft

Définition of waft

Origin :
  • 1510s, "to carry over water," back-formation from obsolete wafter "convoy ship" (late 15c.), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wachter "a guard," from wachten "to guard," related to waken "rouse from sleep" (see wake (n.1)). The meaning "pass through air or space, float" is first attested 1704, and possibly shows some influence of northern dialect waff "cause to move to and fro" (1510s), a variant of wave. Related: Wafted; wafting.
  • verb carry
Example sentences :
  • One fragrant breath of thee is as a waft of the joys of my youth!
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • The motion seemed to waft him off so that he knew nothing more.
  • Extract from : « The World Beyond » by Raymond King Cummings
  • The clinks of bits and stirrup-irons came down in a waft again.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • Scarce a wind can blow that will not waft to you these voices.
  • Extract from : « The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) » by Various
  • Here is the west wind; but only to waft the enemy into our hands.
  • Extract from : « Feats on the Fiord » by Harriet Martineau
  • What avails it me, that all the roses of Shiraz glow and waft incense for me?
  • Extract from : « The Essays of "George Eliot" » by George Eliot
  • You waft me from extreme to extreme, with a rapidity absolutely dizzying.
  • Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
  • I will waft you over fields and forests, over strange lands and seas.
  • Extract from : « Little Johannes » by Frederik van Eeden
  • And there a waft of soft recollections came across his mind.
  • Extract from : « Miss Marjoribanks » by Mrs (Margaret) Oliphant
  • "I don't know—they just seem to waft themselves to me," said Jim modestly.
  • Extract from : « Back To Billabong » by Mary Grant Bruce

Antonyms for waft

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