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    edge
    /ɛdʒ/

    noun

    verb

    • 1. provide with a border or edge: "the pool is edged with paving" Similar borderfringerimverge
    • 2. move or cause to move gradually or furtively in a particular direction: "she tried to edge away from him" Similar creepinch (one's way)worm (one's way)work (one's way)

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  2. the outer or furthest point of something: edge of He put pink icing around the edge of the cake. They built the church on the edge of the village. A man was standing at the water's edge with a small boy. I caught (= hit) my leg on the edge of the table as I walked past. Synonyms. brink. margin (OUTER PART) periphery.

  3. The meaning of EDGE is the cutting side of a blade. How to use edge in a sentence.

  4. An edge is the boundary line of a surface or plane: the edge of a table. border is the boundary of a surface or the strip adjacent to it, inside or out: a border of lace. margin is a limited strip, generally unoccupied, at the extremity of an area: the margin of a page.

  5. The place where something begins or ends is called the edge. If you get too close to a cliff’s edge, you might fall off it. Going to the water's edge is not so dangerous.

  6. noun. /edʒ/ Idioms. [countable] the outside limit of an object, a surface or an area; the part furthest from the centre. I gripped the edge of my desk to steady myself. the first spacecraft to travel to the edge of the solar system. on the edge of something He stood on the edge of the cliff. Stand the coin on its edge.

  7. The earliest known use of the noun edge is in the Old English period (pre-1150). It is also recorded as a verb from the Old English period (pre-1150). edge is a word inherited from Germanic. See etymology.

  8. edge - the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge"