Definitions for wedged

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Spelling: [wejd]

IPA: /wɛdʒd/

Wedged is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in wedged (ddeegw).

Definitions for wedged

noun

1. a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
2. a piece of anything of like shape:
3. a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
4. Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
5. something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:
6. Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
7. Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
8. Optics. optical wedge.
9. haček.
10. Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.
11. a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.

adjective

1. having the shape of a wedge.

verb (used with object)

1. to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.):
2. to insert or fix with a wedge.
3. to pack or fix tightly:
4. to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge:
5. Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
6. to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.

verb (used without object)

1. to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.):

Origin of wedged

First recorded in 1545-55; wedge + -ed³

Examples for wedged

Some songs get wedged in our memories entirely because of one line.

She was wedged between a 12-year member of the Coast Guard and his partner, and a straight man with his 10-year-old daughter, Amy.

The rails are fixed into holes, bored and wedged in the posts.

Jud and I, wedged in, were tossed about by the surging of the cattle, as the jam broke.

I looked for Henry and found him wedged in a forest of legs.

When he could go no further without crampons, Sher wedged himself inside a crack between two boulders and waited for the sun.

wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

This mini command center is wedged into a conference room about 200 feet from the debate hall.

Dan touched the foot, and found that it was, indeed, wedged fast.

The inner end of the pole she wedged in a crevice of the split rock.