fledge

🇺🇸 /flɛdʒ/ 🇬🇧 /fledʒ/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags RARE
verb
R

To grow feathers and be ready to fly.

The baby birds will fledge and then they can fly away.

R

To let go or set free.

They fledged the birds into the wild when they were ready.

translation

v. To grow feathers and be ready to fly.; To let go or set free.

Word Forms

Perfect fledged
Progressive fledging
3rd Present fledges
Past fledged