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Synonyms for edge out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ej
Phonetic Transcription : ɛdʒ



Définition of edge out

Origin :
  • late 13c., "to give an edge to" (implied in past participle egged), from edge (n.). Meaning "to move edgeways (with the edge toward the spectator), advance slowly" is from 1620s, originally nautical. Meaning "to defeat by a narrow margin" is from 1953. The meaning "urge on, incite" (16c.) often must be a mistake for egg (v.). Related: Edged; edging.
  • verb defeat narrowly
Example sentences :
  • If the bar is used, it may be attached with a flat side or edge out as shown.
  • Extract from : « Mission Furniture » by H. H. Windsor
  • At the corner where the main stream of people flowed onward, he started to edge out into the cross street.
  • Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London
  • It is 'the springing thing'; this thin film of life; rising, with its edge out of the ground—infinitely feeble, infinitely fair.
  • Extract from : « Proserpina, Volume 1 » by John Ruskin
  • And in trying to tug it into position the maid had managed to pull every edge out of plumb with the lines of the floor.
  • Extract from : « Penguin Persons & Peppermints » by Walter Prichard Eaton

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