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edged up

edged up is the simple past and past participle of edge up.

Meaning of edge up

Verb

edge up (third-person singular simple present edges up, present participle edging up, simple past and past participle edged up)

  1. (intransitive) To approach or move toward a target little by little, or furtively.
    • The charity fund edged up toward its goal as more and more people donated.

Questions about edged up

What is edged up the simple past and past participle of?
Edged up is the simple past and past participle of edge up.

Words near edged up in the dictionary

  1. Edgecombs
  2. Edgecumbe
  3. edged
  4. edged in
  5. edged out
  6. edged up
  7. Edgefield
  8. Edgefield County
  9. Edgehill
  10. edgel
  11. edgeland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edged up (page history and authors); edge up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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