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Definition of "fledged" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of fledge. (verb)
  • Able to fly. (adjective)

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Use "fledged" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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!"
  • "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 ...."