edge
verb/edʒ/
/edʒ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they edge | /edʒ/ /edʒ/ |
| he / she / it edges | /ˈedʒɪz/ /ˈedʒɪz/ |
| past simple edged | /edʒd/ /edʒd/ |
| past participle edged | /edʒd/ /edʒd/ |
| -ing form edging | /ˈedʒɪŋ/ /ˈedʒɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to move or to move something slowly and carefully in a particular direction
- + adv./prep. She edged a little closer to me.
- I edged nervously past the dog.
- edge something + adv./prep. Emily edged her chair forward.
Extra Examples- He drew level and for a moment edged ahead of his rival.
- She edged carefully along the narrow ledge.
- I edged gingerly down the rocky track.
- Heaton began to edge away from Jed and headed for the stairs.
- We slowly edged our way towards the exit.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- carefully
- cautiously
- nervously
- …
- ahead of
- along
- away from
- …
- edge your way
- [transitive, usually passive] to put something around the edge of something
- be edged (with/in something) The handkerchief is edged with lace.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to increase or decrease slightly
- Prices edged up 2 per cent in the year to December.
Word OriginOld English ecg ‘sharpened side of a blade’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch egge and German Ecke, also to Old Norse eggja ‘incite’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin acies ‘edge’ and Greek akis ‘point’.
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