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[ UK /ˈɛd‍ʒd/ ]
[ US /ˈɛdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
    cutting remarks
    edged satire
    a stinging comment
  2. having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
    an edged knife
    a two-edged sword
  3. having a specified kind of border or edge
    dried sweat left salt-edged patches
    rough-edged leaves
    a black-edged card

How To Use edged In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
  • In meetings Thursday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the country's army chief and others, Gates called the antiterror operations a success so far, "and he acknowledged to all of them that we realize that has come with a great deal of sacrifice for the military," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said following the sessions. Stars and Stripes
  • Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
  • Co-conference chair Jennifer Pahlka from TechWeb acknowledged that the title definitely seemed to get under people's skin. BBC News | Technology | World Edition
  • He said the long term vision of the ginnery is to establish a fully fledged textile industry, which will produce finished materials if the company started producing more lint than what the customers could take.
  • He pledged his gold watch to pay for her birthday gift.
  • We have the superdelegates who are the 796 folks who are unpledged.
  • By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
  • He has pledged to bring his country to peace by the end of the year. Times, Sunday Times
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