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EDGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does edged mean?
• EDGED (adjective)
The adjective EDGED has 3 senses:
1. having a specified kind of border or edge
2. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
3. having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
Familiarity information: EDGED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a specified kind of border or edge
Context example:
dried sweat left salt-edged patches
Similar:
bordered (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
Synonyms:
Context example:
a stinging comment
Similar:
unkind (lacking kindness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
Context example:
a two-edged sword
Similar:
sharp (having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing)
Context examples
By and by he turned to Peggotty again, and repeating, “Are you pretty comfortable though?” bore down upon us as before, until the breath was nearly edged out of my body.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can’t say what turn things are going to take.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the left the woods were still thick, but the road edged away from them and wound over the open.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sometimes, however, he dropped cautiously and slowly behind and edged in between the old leader and the she-wolf.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Perhaps, in his previous days' wanderings, he had edged away too far to the left.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Not less acutely was it felt by Fanny, who had edged back her chair behind her aunt's end of the sofa, and, screened from notice herself, saw all that was passing before her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Again I ran, and again returned, bearing an immense mantle lined and edged with fur.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes edged his way round the wall and flinging the shutters together, he bolted them securely.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Penitentes are tall sharp-edged blades and spikes made of snow and ice that point towards the midday sun.
(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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