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English
Etymology
From dis- + edge.
Verb
disedge (third-person singular simple present disedges, present participle disedging, simple past and past participle disedged) (transitive)
- To deprive (something) of an edge; to render blunt; to blunt or dull.
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, pages 55–56:[T]he pain she had / To keep them in the wild ways of the wood, / Two sets of three laden with jingling arms, / Together, served a little to disedge / The sharpness of that pain about her heart: […]
- (rare) To take the edge off (someone's) hunger; to satiate.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 94–97:I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.
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