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adjective

ˈwejd How to pronounce wedged (audio)
Definition of wedgednext
as in stuck
firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge the pebble in the heel of his shoe was pretty well wedged

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wedged

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verb

past tense of wedge
as in crammed
to fit (people or things) into a tight space managed to wedge one last book onto the bookshelf

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Recent Examples of wedged
Verb
Acaster refused to take part, blaming his abstention on being wedged between Sheen and Croft — two of the more observant players. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026 Since my teenage years, after my parents divorced, a distance had wedged itself between my father and me, further exacerbated by my move to the US at 16 years old. — Aube Rey Lescure, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2026 This relies on two tweeters wedged between the display glass and the frame, and two woofers under the glass, which vibrate against the screen to generate bass. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026 The keys to the Ford Explorer were wedged between the cup holder and center console. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 She was sprawled out on a ladder that was wedged between the ring apron and the announce table. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 That it is wedged into a modern, and very sassy-looking bike with great brakes and suspension should be celebrated. — New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026 To get the tortoise’s DNA material, Jonathan’s veterinarian Joe Hollins pretended to feed him, wedged his mouth open with a hard glove and scraped cells from inside his cheek. — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026 The tubes were wedged in pockets sewn into Castillo’s underwear, a Homeland Security Investigations criminal complaint states. — David Goodhue october 6, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedged
  1. stuck
  2. crammed
  3. jammed
  4. stuffed
  5. tight
  6. squeezed
  7. sandwiched
  8. loaded
Adjective
  • Morley tried to drive off the road near County Road 515 south of Norborne, where the truck became stuck, the highway patrol said.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026
  • By then her son’s American passport had also expired, leaving them stuck in Spain.
    — Brianna Keilar, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of stuck
Verb
  • Trump crammed the Oval Office with gold flourishes, demolished the East Wing to build a sprawling ballroom and converted the Rose Garden into a patio space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of crammed
Adjective
  • Hugo Boss came under more scrutiny in June, when a factory worker at Arctic Textile Mills in Faisalabad, Pakistan, lost an arm while clearing jammed machinery.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • When those signals are blocked, disrupted or deliberately jammed, vehicles may need other methods to maintain reliable navigation.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of jammed
Verb
  • One resourceful guest made do with a powdered barrister’s wig, perhaps left over from a previous Halloween costume, while others stuffed balloons of varying sizes down their t-shirts.
    — Simone Cook, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Whether they’re stuffed with straw or not, there’s a lot of history propping them up.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of stuffed
Adjective
  • Opinion polls predict tight race Domestically, Vucic has pledged higher pensions and public sector salaries, investment in state healthcare and subsidies for young couples.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Both parties expect whoever wins in November to do so by a tight margin in a state of 738,000 people.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of tight
Verb
  • Apple has already implemented a series of price hikes on some of its hardware offerings due to rising memory costs, but margins can still be squeezed if the full increase wasn't passed through.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
  • But in Israel at least, creatives have been stymied in recent years by a plethora of measures that have left them squeezed between censorship at home and international boycotts.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of squeezed
Verb
  • Amazon’s most powerful (and best-sounding) smart display yet, with eight woofers and two tweeters sandwiched between its stand and screen.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 28 Oct. 2026
  • To build the device, the researchers sandwiched the TCPP-HOF layer between two conductive MXene electrodes.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of sandwiched
Verb
  • Scentronic also needs a matching fragrance loaded in advance for every smell it is expected to produce.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Meanwhile, officers with the campus and local police department, armed with a search warrant tied to hazing allegations, stoically toted out bags and cases of evidence and loaded it into police cars.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of loaded

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