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on edge

on edge prepositional phrase: tense, nervous; consequently irritable.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Tense, nervous; consequently irritable.
    • Waiting to see who had been chosen, we were all on edge.

on edge meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

on edge in Bengali

উত্তেজিত, স্নায়বিক চাপে থাকা, ফলে খিটখিটে

on edge in Malayalam

nervous, tense, edgy
ക്ഷമകെട്ട, പൊറുതി മുട്ടിയ, ഉത്കണ്ഠപ്പെട്ട, എളുപ്പത്തിൽ ക്ഷോഭിക്കുന്ന അവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള, ഞരമ്പുമുറുക്കമുള്ള, ഭയപ്പെടുന്ന

Questions about on edge

What does on edge mean?
On edge means tense, nervous; consequently irritable.
What is on edge in Bengali?
On edge in Bengali is উত্তেজিত, স্নায়বিক চাপে থাকা, ফলে খিটখিটে. See On edge meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is on edge?
On edge is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on edge in the dictionary

  1. on dits
  2. on drive
  3. on drives
  4. on duty
  5. on earth
  6. on edge
  7. on end
  8. on equal footing
  9. on equal terms
  10. on eternal patrol
  11. on everybody's lips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on edge (page history and authors); on edge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on edge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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