[
UK
/flˈɛdʒ/
]
[ US /ˈfɫɛdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɛdʒ/ ]
VERB
-
decorate with feathers
fledge an arrow -
grow feathers
The young sparrows are fledging already - feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight
How To Use fledge In A Sentence
- He said the long term vision of the ginnery is to establish a fully fledged textile industry, which will produce finished materials if the company started producing more lint than what the customers could take.
- The young birds' mandibles begin to cross about two weeks after they fledge, and they learn to extract seeds soon after that.
- 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
- Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
- It would be a fully - fledged financial stability agency as well as a monetary policy agency.
- The forward march of the publication saw it become a fully-fledged, full-grown newspaper in March of 2002.
- Hence, war - limited or full-fledged - as an option must be ruled out at least for the present.
- Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype.
- The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
- sees itself as a fully fledged rival party