upwaft

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verb

To waft upward.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbupwaft (third-person singular simple present upwafts, present participle upwafting, simple past and past participle upwafted)

present singular third person upwafts · participle present upwafting · participle past upwafted · past upwafted

  1. archaicintransitivepoeticTo waft upward.

    from the plain Upwafted by the winds the smoke aspired

    1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

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