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# waft

«waft» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move gently through the air, like a light breeze…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (wafts, wafted, wafting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To waft is to move gently through the air, like a light breeze carrying something along. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/#m1)

2) (old use) To waft is to carry someone or something away over water or through the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a light thing moving gently on air; in tales a ship or a spirit is wafted away or to heaven

### examples

- The smell of bread wafted from the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/#x1)
- A feather wafted down from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/#x2)
- The cloud wafted slowly across the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waft» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waft/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.