verb
- Advance slowly, as if by inches.
- usage: "He edged towards the car"
- Provide with a border or edge.
- usage: "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"
- Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.
- usage: "Canada adjoins the U. S."; "England marches with Scotland"
- Provide with an edge.
- usage: "edge a blade"
- synonyms: edge
adjective
- Having a specified kind of border or edge.
- usage: "a black-edged card"; "rough-edged leaves"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches"
- Of speech. ( harsh or hurtful in tone or character)
- usage: "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
- Having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination.
- usage: "an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"
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