What does wedgelike mean?
Wedgelike means Shaped like a wedge..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Shaped like a wedge..
He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration
Use wedgelike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wedgelike means Shaped like a wedge..
Common synonyms include cuneate, cuneiform, wedge-shaped, wedgy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration
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