| VERB | motion | waft | be driven or carried along, as by the air |
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| weather | waft | blow gently | |
| NOUN | artifact | waft, pennant, pennon, streamer | a long flag |
| Sounds | waa'ft | |
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| Rhymes | soft ... Zoloft: 3 rhymes with aaft... | |
| Meaning | A long flag; often tapering. | |
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| Synonyms | pennant, pennon, streamer | |
| Narrower | pennoncel, penoncel, pennoncelle | A small pennant borne on a lance |
| Broader | flag | emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design |
| Spanish | banderín, banderola | |
| Catalan | banderola | |
| Meaning | Be driven or carried along, as by the air. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "Sounds wafted into the room" | |
| Broader | float, drift, be adrift, blow | Be in motion due to some air or water current |
| Meaning | blow gently. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "A breeze wafted through the door" | |
| Broader | blow | Be blowing or storming |
| Spanish | flotar suavemente, mecer | |
| Catalan | bressar, gronxar, gronxolar | |
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