disedges

Verb

disedge (third-person singular simple present disedges, present participle disedging, simple past and past participle disedged)

1. (transitive) To deprive (something) of an edge; to render blunt; to blunt or dull.
   • [T]he pain she had / To keep them in the wild ways of the wood, / Two sets of three laden with jingling arms, / Together, served a little to disedge / The sharpness of that pain about her heart: […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 55–56
2. (rare, transitive) To take the edge off (someone's) hunger; to satiate.
   • I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...