Synonyms of wedged

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adjective

ˈwejd 

as in stuck

firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge

the pebble in the heel of his shoe was pretty well wedged

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stuck
• jammed
• tight
• glued
• frozen
• lodged
• embedded
• clamped
• cemented
• anchored
• set
• attached
• firm
• snug
• secured
• bonded
• fast
• bound
• fastened
• entrenched
• implanted
• impacted
• immovable
• unyielding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loose
• insecure
• detached
• unsecured
• movable
• undone
• unattached
• freed
• unbound
• loosened
• dislodged
• yielding
• unfastened

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crammed
• stuffed
• squeezed
• jammed
• sandwiched
• loaded
• rammed
• crowded
• packed
• shoehorned
• crushed
• filled
• heaped
• jam-packed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wedged

Adjective

Sang Lan tried eating rice and bread crusts — both local folk remedies to dislodge wedged fish bones. —Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025

No 10 Morgan Gibbs-White was one-v-two against the Villa double pivot, while goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez found easy out balls with wedged passes to either full-back. —Liam Tharme, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025

The rest of Chung’s edit features plenty more outwear, as well as a tartan gilet, stripped knits, and a wedged wellington boot—all speaking to Chung’s own personal style, with a campaign shot by Tim Walker that was inspiration by Chung’s festival looks through the years. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025

The custom footwear, which resembled a wedged bootie, sparked a wave of admiration from fans on X, with many commenting that it's bound to set a new trend. —Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024

The clogs have a subtle wedged heel for support, which many people say helps with issues like plantar fasciitis. —Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2024

Style yours with a belt at the waist to accentuate your figure, and add a pair of wedged heels in black if your dress is colorful. —Essence, 10 July 2024

Taylor Dearden brought the hybrid shoe trend to the Emmy Awards 2025, opting for wedged sneaker heels. —Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Verb

Instead of pitons that damaged the rock walls climbers were ascending, Chouinard Equipment started selling chocks, metal anchors that could be wedged into existing cracks in the rock. —Tony Biasotti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

The 16-month-old girl died April 8, 2025, from what the Medical Examiner’s Office ruled was accidental asphyxia after her head got wedged between a plastic cot and a crib’s railing. —City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026

Hoboken is a dense urban settlement of sixty-five thousand wedged between the river to the east and the three-hundred-foot-tall Palisades to the west. —Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

These plants and fungi have been left to co-evolve, alone but together, for millions of years, wedged between mountain and sea as if on a remote island. —Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Local news coverage of the aftermath of the crash showed the vehicle in flames and wedged in the toll booth. —Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026

He's got a nice little nook wedged in there. —Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026

One person was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries after a pickup truck was wedged between two tractor-trailers during a crash on Interstate 84 in Middlebury on Tuesday that left two people injured. —Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026

After waiting in the synagogue’s parking lot for more than two hours, authorities said, Ghazali drove the truck far into the building – hitting a security officer – before the vehicle became wedged in a hallway. —Holmes Lybrand, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026