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wedgelike

wedgelike adjective: shaped like a wedge.

Adjective

wedgelike (comparative more wedgelike, superlative most wedgelike)

  1. Shaped like a wedge.
    • He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his...1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

Synonyms of wedgelike

Forms of wedgelike

comparativemore wedgelike
superlativemost wedgelike
alternative formwedge-like

Origin of wedgelike

From wedge + -like.

Questions about wedgelike

What does wedgelike mean?
Wedgelike means shaped like a wedge.
What part of speech is wedgelike?
Wedgelike is an adjective.

Words near wedgelike in the dictionary

  1. wedgefishes
  2. wedgehead
  3. wedgeheads
  4. wedgelet
  5. wedgelets
  6. wedgelike
  7. wedgemussel
  8. wedgemussels
  9. wedger
  10. wedgers
  11. wedges

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