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disedge en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + edge.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To deprive (something) of an edge; to render blunt; to blunt or dull.
   • [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: […] 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 55–56:
2. (rare, transitive) To take the edge off (someone's) hunger; to satiate.
   • 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. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], lines 94–97:

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