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Adjective edged has 3 senses
- edged - having a specified kind of border or edge; "a black-edged card"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches"
Antonym: unbordered (indirect, via bordered)
- cutting, edged, stinging - (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
Antonym: kind (indirect, via unkind)
- edged - having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination; "an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"
Antonym: dull (indirect, via sharp)
Verb edge has 4 senses
- edge, inch - advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car"
--1 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- border, edge - provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"
--2 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on - lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
--3 is one way to touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- edge - provide with an edge; "edge a blade"
--4 is one way to sharpen
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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