What does edged mean?
Definitions for edged
ɛdʒdedged
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Princeton's WordNet
edgedadjective
having a specified kind of border or edge
"a black-edged card"; "rough-edged leaves"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches"
cutting, edged, stingingadjective
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
"cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
edgedadjective
having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
"an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"
Wiktionary
edgedverb
Past tense of to edge.
Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.
edgedadjective
referring to something that has a sharp planar surface
The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Edgedparticipial adj.
Sharp; not blunt.
Etymology: from edge.
We find that subtile or edged quantities do prevail over blunt ones. Kenelm Digby, on Bodies.
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edged
Edged generally refers to something that has a border, margin, or edge. It may also refer to something having a sharp or cutting edge, or something characterized by a distinct or noticeable quality. It can often be used to describe objects, words, or actions that have literal or metaphorical boundaries, sharpness, or pronounced characteristics.
Webster Dictionary
Edged
of Edge
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of edged in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of edged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of edged in a Sentence
The theory is that if China continues unmitigated expansion, both militarily and economically, and we don't compete to protect our influence, the consequence could be that we are edged out of those areas and we lose the ability to address what we perceive as counterterrorism national interests in Africa.
On the one hand you save on the operating costs, but your yield starts to fall because your corporate business is disappearing so it's a double-edged sword, on balance, the airline community is doing better as a result of the lower oil price.
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
While further work is needed to corroborate these findings, overall, it suggests that omicron’s mutations present the virus with a double-edged sword: it’s got better at evading the immune system, but it might have lost some of its ability to cause severe disease.
Working from that young of an age is definitely a double-edged sword.
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