See take the edge off on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes the edge off",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking the edge off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took the edge off",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken the edge off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "take<,,took,taken> the edge off"
},
"expansion": "take the edge off (third-person singular simple present takes the edge off, present participle taking the edge off, simple past took the edge off, past participle taken the edge off)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011 Allen Gregory, \"Pilot\" (season 1, episode 1)",
"text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off."
},
{
"ref": "2011, Allison Brennan, Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Novel of Suspense, page 1:",
"text": "She knew better than to drink from the bar, but she'd been so thirsty, and she needed something to take the edge off.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe); to dull."
],
"id": "en-take_the_edge_off-en-verb-9RqRzslR",
"links": [
[
"diminish",
"diminish"
],
[
"dull",
"dull"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 87",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 88",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To relax or unwind (by consuming alcohol or other psychoactive substances)."
],
"id": "en-take_the_edge_off-en-verb-kGknUMho",
"links": [
[
"relax",
"relax"
],
[
"unwind",
"unwind"
]
]
}
],
"word": "take the edge off"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes the edge off",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking the edge off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took the edge off",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken the edge off",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "take<,,took,taken> the edge off"
},
"expansion": "take the edge off (third-person singular simple present takes the edge off, present participle taking the edge off, simple past took the edge off, past participle taken the edge off)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011 Allen Gregory, \"Pilot\" (season 1, episode 1)",
"text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off."
},
{
"ref": "2011, Allison Brennan, Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Novel of Suspense, page 1:",
"text": "She knew better than to drink from the bar, but she'd been so thirsty, and she needed something to take the edge off.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe); to dull."
],
"links": [
[
"diminish",
"diminish"
],
[
"dull",
"dull"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To relax or unwind (by consuming alcohol or other psychoactive substances)."
],
"links": [
[
"relax",
"relax"
],
[
"unwind",
"unwind"
]
]
}
],
"word": "take the edge off"
}
Download raw JSONL data for take the edge off meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.