fledge

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
2. verb To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
3. verb To decorate with feathers.
4. verb To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
5. adjective Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

Similar words

feather flight take wing take flight fly the nest hatch hatch out fletch farrow fall

Often followed by

in at after and from the young within by

Word family

fledged fledges fledging