Crossword clues for wafted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waft \Waft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafting.] [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See Wave to waver.]
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To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.]
But soft: who wafts us yonder?
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To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
A gentle wafting to immortal life.
--Milton.Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.
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To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som?times used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: waft)
Usage examples of "wafted".
They poured tea as the sounds of merriment wafted up from the town square through the unshuttered windows.
Emuin caught at him, but wafted backward as if the wind had blown him, sailed away and down like the leaf from the hilltop.
Plumes of gray smoke still wafted into the sky from the ashes of the house.
A faint smell of smoke came to him on the early morning breeze before he saw the thin gray plume that wafted from the chimney.
Gentle breezes wafted through, peppered with the scent of wildflowers and honey.
The smell of fresh-baked cookies wafted upstairs, seeping in through the doorway and wrapping the tempting fingers of their aroma around him.
Sweet smoke wafted over the crowd: khepri, mostly, but here and there other races, investigating the statues.
The smash of glasses and shrieks of amusement wafted over the dour bargemen working the locks, riding the sluicing water up to a higher level, taking off towards the river, leaving the boisterous inn behind.
Snippets of alien joy and inhuman terror wafted in her nostrils and ears and behind her eyes, synaesthetically.
He lit the candle in a burst of sulphur, shielding it from the cool air that wafted from the hidden room.
The sultry pall of variegated musk that had wafted through the cages had made for aggressive, unpredictable behaviour.
His flavoursome imaginings wafted up to wrap around a twitching tongue.
There was obviously some leakage, Isaac thought, from the edge of his helmet, some trickles of thought that wafted tantalizingly through the aether.
That night, as the odors of jasmine and eucalyptus, bamboo groves and fish mingled with the smells from tens of thousands of braziers, and wafted onto the ship, Ling Mei woke to the feel of a footstep on the deck.
The smells wafted from well-filled tea stands were as nothing compared with the fragrance here.