"take the edge off" meaning in English

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  "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the edge off"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "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."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "diminish",
          "diminish"
        ],
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          "dull",
          "dull"
        ]
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To relax or unwind (by consuming alcohol or other psychoactive substances)."
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          "unwind"
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  ],
  "word": "take the edge off"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "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": [
    {
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        "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."
      ],
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        [
          "diminish",
          "diminish"
        ],
        [
          "dull",
          "dull"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "To relax or unwind (by consuming alcohol or other psychoactive substances)."
      ],
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          "relax",
          "relax"
        ],
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          "unwind",
          "unwind"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the edge off"
}