wing
/wɪŋ/ verb C2- To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- To fly.
- To travel swiftly.
- To add a wing (extra part) to.
- To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it. · I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
- To throw.
- To furnish with wings.
- To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
He/she/it wings · Past winged · Past participle winged · -ing form winging
Verb forms
- Base form
- wing
- He/she/it
- wings
- Past
- winged
- Past participle
- winged
- -ing form
- winging
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In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.
The rustic, ignorant of his danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried it aloft.
The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in their bodies, were captured.
Whoever owned it could call three times upon the Winged Monkeys, who would obey any order they were given.
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