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Disedge

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deprive (something) of an edge; to render blunt; to blunt or dull. transitive

    "[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: […]"

  2. 2
    To take the edge off (someone's) hunger; to satiate. rare, transitive

    "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."

Etymology

From dis- + edge.

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