Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with feathers; able to fly.
- Hence Covered with anything resembling or serving the purpose of feathers.
- Equipped for flight; winged.
- Developed; matured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination; -- of birds.
- adjective equipped with feathers; -- of an arrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fledge . - adjective Able to
fly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of an arrow) equipped with feathers
- adjective (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
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Examples
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Which brings us to one of the main problems with second acts: New selves don't just spring fully fledged from the wreckage of old lives.
Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to. Laura Kipnis 2010
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Mime argues that such a thing is impossible, is out of nature; that what to the young bird is the old bird, which feeds it in the nest until it is fledged, that is to Siegfried, inevitably, Mime!
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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He has relentlessly favored a full fledged invasion of Libya to overthrow Gadaffi and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in North Africa.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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That new program, Transformers Prime, bowed last fall as a five-part miniseries, but now returns as a full-fledged series this Friday, Feb. 11, at 6:30/5:30c on The Hub, the new kids channel formed by Hasbro and Discovery Communications.
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He has relentlessly favored a full fledged invasion of Libya to overthrow Gadaffi and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in North Africa.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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Inquiring minds want to know what are Sarkozy's motives for compelling Les Yankees into a full fledged military involvement in Libya?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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And at least one bank was asked to asses the impact of a full-fledged trade war between the U.S. and China.
For U.K. Banks, a Calamity Is Born David Enrich 2011
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Al-Jazeera has emerged as a full-fledged political actor because it reflects and articulates popular sentiment.
In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world Hussein Agha 2011
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So while just trying to tidy up a bit, I ended up doing a full-fledged cleaning ... well of at least a corner of my scraproom ....
I love a clean scraproom! jpitta 2009
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Inquiring minds want to know what are Sarkozy's motives for compelling Les Yankees into a full fledged military involvement in Libya?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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