wedge
/wɛd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To support or secure using a wedge. · I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
- To force into a narrow gap. · He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.· I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state. · My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
He/she/it wedges · Past wedged · Past participle wedged · -ing form wedging
Verb forms
- Base form
- wedge
- He/she/it
- wedges
- Past
- wedged
- Past participle
- wedged
- -ing form
- wedging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.”
She was wedged in between a stout lady in pink silk and a tall, scornful-looking girl in a white-lace dress.
A large stone had served as a wedge; flints and pebbles had been inserted around it, so as to conceal the orifice; this species of masonry had been covered with earth, and grass and weeds had grown there, moss had clung to the stones, myrtle-bushes had taken root, and the old rock seemed fixed to the earth.
But the rock was too heavy, and too firmly wedged, to be moved by anyone man, were he Hercules himself.
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