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unedging

unedging is the present participle and gerund of unedge.

Meaning of unedge

Verb

unedge (third-person singular simple present unedges, present participle unedging, simple past and past participle unedged)

  1. To deprive of an edge; to blunt.
    • […]bodies that were made for shining brass,
      Are […]unedged1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the...

Questions about unedging

What is unedging the present participle and gerund of?
Unedging is the present participle and gerund of unedge.

Words near unedging in the dictionary

  1. unecstatically
  2. unecumenical
  3. unedge
  4. unedged
  5. unedges
  6. unedging
  7. unedgy
  8. unedible
  9. unedified
  10. unedifying
  11. unedit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unedging (page history and authors); unedge (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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