to fledge
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9.8
- verb
- /flɛdʒ/
- Archaic
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emplumar
- To improve his archery skills, he learned how to fledge his own arrows at the workshop.
- a full-fledged
- fully fledged
- become a full-fledged
Examples
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The artisan took great care to fledge each arrow, ensuring they were well-balanced and decorated.
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He decided to fledge the new arrows with colorful feathers for better accuracy.
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Finally, the teacher knew Sam was on his way to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Academic text (1999) -
All these elements are coordinated, then, in terms of the chosen theme for the year and developed into a full-fledged show.
Academic text (1999) -
Without waiting for an act of Congress, the President in April 1917 established the Committee on Public Information, the first full-fledged federal propaganda machinery.
Academic text (1991) -
India is a young democracy that became independent from British rule in 1947 and a full-fledged republic with its own constitution in 1950.
Blog text (6) -
Lee: There hasn't been a really full-fledged social history with a sweeping perspective.
Blog text (6) -
Maura started as a throwaway character as well, but eventually she turned into someone more full-fledged.
Academic text (2008) -
The task now is to make it so expansive and so institutionalized that China has no choice but to become a full-fledged member of it.
Academic text (2008) -
This, he suggested, has led to the reclassification of mere incidents as full-fledged disasters.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
2
9.4
To put feathers on an arrow to help it fly straight
1
9.9
To attach feathers to an arrow so it flies straight
1
6.4
To fasten decorative feathers to clothing or a hat
1
3.7
To grow feathers, as young birds do
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fledge also means to put feathers on something, like arrows, and it is tied to the same root as feather. So to 'fledge' an arrow is literally to add 'feathers' to help it fly straight and true.