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"disabilities", "failings", "impairments", "shortcomings", "bars", "catches", "checks", "clogs", "crimps", "embarrassments", "hindrances", "hitches", "hurdles", "impediments", "interferences", "lets", "manacles", "obstacles", "obstructions", "rubs", "shackles", "stops", "trammels", "lurches", "setbacks" ], "antonyms":[ "disadvantages", "drawbacks", "handicaps", "liabilities", "minuses", "penalties", "strikes" ] }, "an interval of time just before the onset of something":{ "examples":[ "the nation's economy was on the edge of collapse when the Federal Reserve took exceptionally bold action" ], "synonyms":[ "brinks", "cusps", "points", "thresholds", "verges" ], "near synonyms":[ "nicks" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to make sharp or sharper":{ "examples":[ "if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows" ], "synonyms":[ "grinds", "hones", "sharpens", "stones", "strops", "whets" ], "near synonyms":[ "files" ], "near antonyms":[ "buffs", 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"frontier", "march", "outskirts", "pale", "selvage", "lap", "shore" ], "near antonyms":[ "center", "core", "heart", "inner", "inside", "interior", "middle", "within" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to make sharp or sharper":{ "examples":[ "if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows" ], "synonyms":[ "grinding", "honing", "sharpening", "stoning", "stropping", "whetting" ], "near synonyms":[ "filing" ], "near antonyms":[ "buffing", "burnishing", "glossing", "polishing", "rounding", "smoothing" ], "antonyms":[ "blunting", "dulling" ] }, "to serve as a border for":{ "examples":[ "pavement edging the flower bed" ], "synonyms":[ "bordering", "bounding", "framing", "fringing", "margining", "rimming", "skirting" ], "near synonyms":[ "hemming", "trimming", "circumscribing", "defining", "delineating", "demarcating", "outlining", "silhouetting", "sketching", "tracing", "circling", "compassing", "encircling", "enclosing", "inclosing", "environing", "girdling", "girthing", "looping", "ringing", "rounding", "surrounding", "walling", "checking", "confining", "controlling", "curbing", "limiting", "restraining", "restricting" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "edgings":{ "the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{ "examples":[ "the lace edging on the sleeves gives a blouse a pleasingly feminine look" ], "synonyms":[ "borderlines", "borders", "boundaries", "bounds", "brims", "circumferences", "compasses", "confines", "edges", "ends", "frames", "fringes", "hems", "margins", "perimeters", "peripheries", "rims", "skirtings", "skirts", "verges" ], "near synonyms":[ "ambits", "brinks", "crests", "curbs", "cusps", "lips", "ceilings", "maxima", "maximums", "demarcations", "extents", "limitations", "measures", "meres", "restrictions", "terminations", "borderlands", "frontiers", "marches", "outskirts", "pales", "selvages", "laps", "shores" ], "near antonyms":[ "centers", "cores", "hearts", "inners", "insides", "interiors", "middles", "withins" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "edgewise":{ "with one side faced forward":{ "examples":[ "you can squeeze through the narrow passage between the two caves if you go edgewise" ], "synonyms":[ "broadside", "crabwise", "edgeways", "sideways", "sidewise" ], "near synonyms":[ "aslant", "indirectly", "obliquely", "laterally", "sideward", "sidewards" ], "near antonyms":[ "dead", "direct", "right", "straight" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "adverb" ] } }