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   fledge

   /flɛdʒ/

   verb

   • 1. (of a young bird) develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight: "the young fledge around four weeks after hatching"
   • ▪ bring up (a young bird) until its wing feathers are developed enough for flight: "they fledged twenty-four chicks in fourteen months"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from the obsolete adjective fledge ‘ready to fly’, from Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlug ‘quick, agile’, also to fly1.

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