Definitions for waft

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waft waft

Spelling: [waft, wahft]

IPA: /wæft, wɑft/

Waft is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in waft (aftw).

Definitions for waft

noun

1. a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived:
2. a wafting movement; light current or gust:
3. the act of wafting.
4. Also, waif. Nautical. a signal given by waving a flag.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water:
2. to send or convey lightly, as if in flight:
3. Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.

verb (used without object)

1. to float or be carried, especially through the air:

Origin of waft

1535-45; back formation from late Middle English waughter armed escort vessel Dutch or Low German wachter watchman; in some senses confused with waff

Examples for waft

The clinks of bits and stirrup-irons came down in a waft again.

One fragrant breath of thee is as a waft of the joys of my youth!

You waft me from extreme to extreme, with a rapidity absolutely dizzying.

"I don't know—they just seem to waft themselves to me," said Jim modestly.

And there a waft of soft recollections came across his mind.

The motion seemed to waft him off so that he knew nothing more.

Here is the west wind; but only to waft the enemy into our hands.

I will waft you over fields and forests, over strange lands and seas.

What avails it me, that all the roses of Shiraz glow and waft incense for me?

Scarce a wind can blow that will not waft to you these voices.