This is a list of words that end in ‘dge.’ Not all of these ‘dge’ ending words are recognized by the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary because many of them are not used in contemporary literature.
We have divided this article into two sections.
The first part gives ‘dge’ ending words with a definition. The latter part comes without a definition because those words are more obscure.
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Abjudge
To take away by judicial decision —opposed to adjudge.
Abridge
To shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense; to shorten in duration or extent; to reduce in scope : diminish.
Acknowledge
To recognize the rights, authority, or status of; to disclose knowledge of or agreement with; to express gratitude or obligation for.
Adjudge
To decide or rule upon as a judge : adjudicate; to pronounce judicially : rule; sentence, condemn.
Arridge
Arris.
Badge
A device or token especially of membership in a society or group; a characteristic mark; an emblem awarded for a particular accomplishment.
Bainbridge
A homeostatic reflex mechanism that causes acceleration of heartbeat following the stimulation of local muscle spindles when blood pressure in the venae cavae and right atrium is increased.
Begrudge
To give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure; to look upon with disapproval or envy.
Besmudge
To soil or tarnish (someone or something) with or as if with a blurry spot or stain : smudge.
Beveridge
Albert jeremiah 1862—1927 american politician and historian.
Bludge
To avoid work or responsibility; sponge; sponge.
Bodge
An english unit of capacity equal to about 1/2peck and out of use since the 17th century.
Breckinridge
John cabell 1821—1875 american politician; vice president of the u.s. (1857—61).
Bridge
A structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle (such as a river); a time, place, or means of connection or transition; something resembling a bridge in form or function: such as.
Budge
A fur formerly prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool outward.
Cadge
To obtain (something) for free often by persuading or imposing on another : sponge; also : to take, use, or borrow (something) without acknowledgment.
Cambridge
City in eastern england; capital of cambridgeshire and site of cambridge university population 92,772; city in eastern massachusetts on the north side of the charles river across from boston population 105,162.
Cartridge
A case or container that holds a substance, device, or material which is difficult, troublesome, or awkward to handle and that usually can be easily changed: such as.
Chain-bridge
A suspension bridge suspended from chains.
Coatbridge
Burgh in south central scotland east of glasgow population 43,841.
Coleridge
Samuel taylor 1772—1834 english poet.
Coolidge
(john) calvin 1872—1933 vice president of the u.s. (1921—23); 30th president of the u.s. (1923—29).
Cross-bridge
The globular head of a myosin molecule that projects from a myosin filament in muscle and in the sliding filament hypothesis of muscle contraction is held to attach temporarily to an adjacent actin filament and draw it into the a band of a sarcomere between the myosin.
Disacknowledge
To refuse to acknowledge : deny, disown.
Disedge
To deprive of an edge : blunt, dull.
Dislodge
To drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage; to force out of a secure or settled position; to leave a place previously occupied.
Dodge
An act of evading by sudden bodily movement; an artful device to evade, deceive, or trick; expedient.
Drawbridge
A bridge made to be raised up, let down, or drawn aside so as to permit or hinder passage.
Draw-bridge
A bridge made to be raised up, let down, or drawn aside so as to permit or hinder passage.
Dredge
To dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge —often used with up; to deepen (a waterway) with a machine that removes earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube : to deepen with a dredge; to bring to light by deep searching —often used with up.
Drudge
To do hard, menial, or monotonous work; to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work.
Edge
The cutting side of a blade; the sharpness of a blade; force, effectiveness.
Enhedge
To enclose or surround with or as if with a hedge.
Fadge
A round thick loaf of bread; potato cake or bread; bundle.
Featheredge
A very thin sharp edge; especially : one that is easily broken or bent over.
Feather-edge
A very thin sharp edge; especially : one that is easily broken or bent over.
Fidge
Fidget.
Fledge
To acquire the feathers necessary for flight or independent activity; also : to leave the nest after acquiring such feathers; to rear until ready for flight or independent activity; to cover with or as if with feathers or down.
Flodge
Pool, puddle.
Footbridge
A bridge for pedestrians.
Fore-edge
The edge of a book, book section, or illustration opposite the backbone.
Forejudge
To expel, oust, or put out by judgment of a court.
Fore-judge
To expel, oust, or put out by judgment of a court.
Foreknowledge
To have previous knowledge of : know beforehand especially by paranormal means or by revelation.
Frankpledge
An anglo-saxon system under which each adult male member of a tithing was responsible for the good conduct of the others; also : the member himself or the tithing.
Frank-pledge
An anglo-saxon system under which each adult male member of a tithing was responsible for the good conduct of the others; also : the member himself or the tithing.
Fridge
Refrigerator.
Frost-ridge
A ridge on a tree trunk caused by the healing and recurrence of frost cracks.
Fudge
To devise as a substitute : fake; falsify; to fail to come to grips with : dodge.
Gilt-edge
Having a gilt edge; of the best quality or rating.
Grudge
To be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully.
Hardedge
Of or relating to abstract painting characterized by geometric forms with clearly defined boundaries.
Hard-edge
Of or relating to abstract painting characterized by geometric forms with clearly defined boundaries.
Headledge
Either of the athwartship coamings of a hatchway or other deck opening; either of the upright end posts of a centerboard box.
Hedge
A fence or boundary formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees; barrier, limit; a means of protection or defense (as against financial loss).
Hodge
An english rustic or farm laborer.
Hodgepodge
A heterogeneous mixture : jumble.
Hodge-podge
A heterogeneous mixture : jumble.
Impledge
Pledge.
Jack-by-the-hedge
Garlic mustard.
Judge
One who makes judgments: such as; a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court; one appointed to decide in a contest or competition : umpire.
Kedge
To move (a ship) by means of a line attached to a small anchor dropped at the distance and in the direction desired; to move a ship by kedging.
Kentledge
Pig iron or scrap metal used as ballast.
Kittredge
George lyman 1860—1941 american educator.
Kludge
A haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem.
Knife-edge
A sharp wedge of steel or other hard material used as a fulcrum for a lever beam in a precision instrument; a sharp narrow knifelike edge.
Knowledge
The fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association; acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique; the fact or condition of being aware of something.
Ledge
A raised or projecting edge or molding intended to protect or check; an underwater ridge or reef especially near the shore; a narrow flat surface or shelf; especially : one that projects from a wall of rock.
Lethbridge
City on the oldman river in southern alberta, canada population 83,517.
Lodge
To provide temporary quarters for; to rent lodgings to; to establish or settle in a place.
Madge
Barn owl; magpie.
Midge
A tiny dipteran fly (such as a chironomid).
Misjudge
To be mistaken in judgment; to estimate wrongly; to have an unjust opinion of.
Misknowledge
Misunderstand.
Nidge
Shake, quiver.
Noodge
Pester, nag.
Nudge
To touch or push gently; especially : to seek the attention of by a push of the elbow; to prod lightly : urge into action; approach.
Nutsedge
Nut grass.
Overbridge
Overpass.
Oxbridge
Of, relating to, or characteristic of oxford and cambridge universities.
Padge
Barn owl.
Partridge
Any of various typically medium-sized stout-bodied old world gallinaceous birds (perdix, alectoris, and related genera) with variegated plumage that are often hunted as game.
Pepperidge
Black gum; common barberry.
Pledge
A bailment of a chattel as security for a debt or other obligation without involving transfer of title; the chattel so delivered; the contract incidental to such a bailment.
Plodge
To wade or walk heavily.
Podge
Something podgy.
Porridge
A soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick.
Prejudge
To judge before hearing or before full and sufficient examination.
Preknowledge
To know beforehand : foreknow.
Pudge
One that is pudgy.
Razoredge
—used in various phrases to refer to a dangerous position or a position in which two different things are carefully balanced.
Razor-edge
—used in various phrases to refer to a dangerous position or a position in which two different things are carefully balanced.
Reacknowledge
To acknowledge again.
Redbridge
Borough of northeastern greater london, england population 279,000.
Rejudge
To judge (something, such as a court case) again.
Repledge
To pledge or promise (something) again.
Ridge
An elevated body part or structure; a range of hills or mountains; an elongate elevation on an ocean bottom.
Rutledge
John 1739—1800 american statesman and jurist; chief justice u.s. supreme court (1795).
Sedge
Any of a family (cyperaceae, the sedge family) of usually tufted monocotyledonous marsh plants differing from the related grasses in having achenes and solid stems; especially : any of a cosmopolitan genus (carex).
Self-knowledge
Knowledge or understanding of one’s own capabilities, character, feelings, or motivations : self-understanding.
Selvedge
The edge on either side of a woven or flat-knitted fabric so finished as to prevent raveling; specifically : a narrow border often of different or heavier threads than the fabric and sometimes in a different weave.
Skedge
Privet.
Sledge
Sledgehammer.
Sludge
Mud, mire; especially : a muddy deposit (as on a riverbed) : ooze; a muddy or slushy mass, deposit, or sediment: such as; precipitated solid matter produced by water and sewage treatment processes.
Smidge
A small amount : bit.
Smoodge
To curry favor in a fawning manner; smooch.
Smudge
To make a smudge on; to soil as if by smudging; to rub, daub, or wipe in a smeary manner.
Snowbridge
A bridge of snow across a crevasse in a glacier.
Snudge
To be stingy and niggardly; to cheat especially in competition : fudge; to go about hunched over or as if in deep thought.
Splodge
Splotch.
Squdge
Ooze; to slosh around (as in ooze or mud).
Squidge
Squelch.
Stockbridge
A member of the housatonic band of the mahican which moved from massachusetts in 1785 to join the oneida in northern new york and later united with the munsee in wisconsin.
Stodge
To stuff full especially with food.
Stourbridge
Town in the west midlands, west central england, west of birmingham population 63,000.
Straightedge
A bar or piece of material (as of wood, metal, or plastic) with a straight edge for testing straight lines and surfaces or for cutting along or drawing straight lines.
Straight-edge
A bar or piece of material (as of wood, metal, or plastic) with a straight edge for testing straight lines and surfaces or for cutting along or drawing straight lines.
Tedge
Ingate.
Teethridge
The bony ridge of the jaw containing the sockets of the teeth; specifically : alveolar ridge.
Thorn-hedge
A hedge of thornbushes; especially : a hawthorn hedge.
Three-ridge
A freshwater clam (amblema costata synonym quadrula plicata) of the mississippi drainage system.
Trowbridge
Town in southern england; capital of wiltshire population 39,500.
Trudge
To walk or march steadily and usually laboriously; to trudge along or over.
Unlodge
To deprive of lodgment : dislodge.
Unwedge
To remove a wedge from; to release from a tight position.
Uxbridge
Former municipal borough in middlesex, southeastern england.
Wadge
Bunch, bundle; slab, wedge.
Wedge
A piece of a substance (such as wood or iron) that tapers to a thin edge and is used for splitting wood and rocks, raising heavy bodies, or for tightening by being driven into something; something (such as a policy) causing a breach or separation.
Weighbridge
A platform scale flush with the roadway (as for weighing vehicles, cattle, or coal).
Weigh-bridge
A platform scale flush with the roadway (as for weighing vehicles, cattle, or coal).
Wodge
A bulky mass or chunk : lump, wad.
The following words also end in dge; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
| Abedge | About-sledge |
| Afterknowledge | Aldredge |
| Aldridge | Allodge |
| Antiwedge | Aridge |
| Bainbrudge | Baynebridge |
| Baldridge | Banebrudge |
| Beaded-edge | Behedge |
| Bel-ridge | Bldge |
| Brackenridge | Breckenridge |
| Brundidge | Cedaredge |
| Chief-pledge | Cledge |
| Cojudge | Cradge |
| Daydrudge | Debadge |
| Double-dodge | Dradge |
| Draught-bridge | Duledge |
| Elbridge | Eldredge |
| Eldridge | Elldridge |
| Endrudge | Enlodge |
| Ex-judge | Flidge |
| Fodge | Forebridge |
| Forjudge | Gadge |
| Garridge | Gatteridge |
| Gledge | Gudge |
| Holdredge | Ill-judge |
| Inbardge | Interknowledge |
| Interpledge | Jarbidge |
| Jimsedge | Kimmeridge |
| Knightsbridge | Langridge |
| Leveridge | Loveridge |
| Misacknowledge | Mislodge |
| Mobridge | Modge |
| Nadge | Nonforeknowledge |
| Nonknowledge | Outbridge |
| Outdodge | Outedge |
| Overdredge | Overedge |
| Overjudge | Parridge |
| Patridge | Piperidge |
| Pipperidge | Plum-porridge |
| Poddidge | Preacknowledge |
| Pre-cambridge | Prepledge |
| Priviledge | Probridge |
| Pulsidge | Quasi-pledge |
| Reabridge | Rebridge |
| Redredge | Refledge |
| Rehedge | Relodge |
| Ribbidge | Rindge |
| Riveredge | Rockledge |
| Rodge | Rough-edge |
| Round-edge | Roundridge |
| Rudge | Saccadge |
| Selfridge | Slodge |
| Soudge | Southbridge |
| Split-edge | Sprindge |
| Squimmidge | Steam-dredge |
| Sturbridge | Subjudge |
| Superknowledge | Swedge |
| Swidge | Tallmadge |
| Tonbridge | Underbridge |
| Underedge | Underjudge |
| Unedge | Unfledge |
| Unhedge | Unjudge |
| Upridge | Woodbridge |
| Wooldridge | Wudge |
