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Synonyms for wafted

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

Définition of wafted

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 :
  • With his spotless hue, he resembled a snow drift, wafted along by the wind.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • When he is wafted to a haven of rest, we will console each other.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • An icy thrill, wafted from the Invisible, passed through the listeners.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Every now and then the sound of chanting was wafted from the church.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • At last they were gone, and from the outside the shrill voice of her page was wafted to me.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The wind blew it out into the lake, and he was wafted to the southern shore.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 » by Various
  • And the joy is redoubled when this same song is wafted back to him as hearer.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • An almost overpowering perfume of roses was wafted into his face.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
  • Often we are drawn to them by a fragrance which is wafted upon the evening air.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
  • Content is the guerdon of the beast, but gods are wafted upwards on the wings of pain.
  • Extract from : « Morning Star » by H. Rider Haggard

Antonyms for wafted

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