FLITTED

FLIT

flit, flutter, fleet, dart

(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; “The hummingbird flitted among the branches”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

flitted

simple past tense and past participle of flit

Source: Wiktionary


FLIT

Flit, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] Etym: [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. Fleet, v. i.]

1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.

3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.

4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.

5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.

Flit, a.

Definition: Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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