MEANING
To float or carry lightly through the air.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- waft through a doorway
- waft on a breeze
On the page
The smell of bread wafted into the courtyard.
Word forms
- Base
- waft
- Past tense
- wafted
- Past participle
- wafted
- Present participle
- wafting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- waft
- Present continuous
- am/is/are wafting
- Present perfect
- have/has wafted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been wafting
- Past
- wafted
- Past continuous
- was/were wafting
- Past perfect
- had wafted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been wafting
- Future
- will waft
- Future continuous
- will be wafting
- Future perfect
- will have wafted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been wafting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: waft; wafts; wafted; wafted; wafting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: wafts.
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