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edging up

edging up is the present participle and gerund 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 edging up

What is edging up the present participle and gerund of?
Edging up is the present participle and gerund of edge up.

Words near edging up in the dictionary

  1. edginess
  2. edginesses
  3. edging
  4. edging in
  5. edging out
  6. edging up
  7. edgingly
  8. edgings
  9. Edgington
  10. Edgingtons
  11. Edgins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edging 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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