Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of waft
nounwafting (plural waftings)
plural waftings
- An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed.
2007 January 31, Bryan Miller, “In a Yale Dining Hall, Independent Study at the Microwave”, in New York Times
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APA
wafting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wafting
MLA
“wafting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wafting. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wafting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wafting.
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