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WINGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very fast; as if with wings
Example:
on winged feet
Classified under:
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind
Example:
the winged feet of Mercury
Classified under:
Similar:
alar; alary; aliform; wing-shaped (having or resembling wings)
alate; alated ((of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions)
batwing (formed or shaped like a bat's wing)
brachypterous; short-winged ((especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings)
one-winged (having a single wing)
pinioned ((of birds) especially having the flight feathers)
slender-winged (having slender wings)
small-winged (having small wings)
volant (with wings extended in a flying position)
winglike (resembling a wing in shape or position)
Antonym:
wingless (lacking wings)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wing
Context examples:
A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The post office, couriers and express delivery services like FedEx, UPS, and DHL are also ruled by the winged messenger and see the effects when Mercury goes out of phase.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My fancy was soaring out to my father upon the waters, when a word from Jim brought it back on to the grass like a broken-winged gull.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceeded from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Then look round and thou wilt see a griffin, winged like bird, sitting by the Red Sea; jump on to his back with thy beloved one as quickly as possible, and he will carry you over the waters to your home.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The winged offspring can then fly to and colonize new, less crowded plants.
(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)
The findings may have important conservation implications for declining populations of golden-winged warblers.
(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)
As he did so, a draught of air fanned him, and a large, winged body swept ominously and silently past.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
