edge out

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Definitions of edge out words

noun edge out a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges. 1
noun edge out a brink or verge: the edge of a cliff; the edge of disaster. 1
noun edge out any of the narrow surfaces of a thin, flat object: a book with gilt edges. 1
noun edge out a line at which two surfaces of a solid object meet: an edge of a box. 1
noun edge out the thin, sharp side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon. 1
noun edge out the sharpness proper to a blade: The knife has lost its edge. 1

before 1000

One of the 6% oldest English words

before 1000; Middle English egge, Old English ecg; cognate with German Ecke corner; akin to Latin aciēs, Greek akís point

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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nose out — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.