Wafting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of waft form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"Shrivelled leaves are wafting away on the evening breeze."

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