List of Words Ending ‘DGE’

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.

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.

AbedgeAbout-sledge
AfterknowledgeAldredge
AldridgeAllodge
AntiwedgeAridge
BainbrudgeBaynebridge
BaldridgeBanebrudge
Beaded-edgeBehedge
Bel-ridgeBldge
BrackenridgeBreckenridge
BrundidgeCedaredge
Chief-pledgeCledge
CojudgeCradge
DaydrudgeDebadge
Double-dodgeDradge
Draught-bridgeDuledge
ElbridgeEldredge
EldridgeElldridge
EndrudgeEnlodge
Ex-judgeFlidge
FodgeForebridge
ForjudgeGadge
GarridgeGatteridge
GledgeGudge
HoldredgeIll-judge
InbardgeInterknowledge
InterpledgeJarbidge
JimsedgeKimmeridge
KnightsbridgeLangridge
LeveridgeLoveridge
MisacknowledgeMislodge
MobridgeModge
NadgeNonforeknowledge
NonknowledgeOutbridge
OutdodgeOutedge
OverdredgeOveredge
OverjudgeParridge
PatridgePiperidge
PipperidgePlum-porridge
PoddidgePreacknowledge
Pre-cambridgePrepledge
PriviledgeProbridge
PulsidgeQuasi-pledge
ReabridgeRebridge
RedredgeRefledge
RehedgeRelodge
RibbidgeRindge
RiveredgeRockledge
RodgeRough-edge
Round-edgeRoundridge
RudgeSaccadge
SelfridgeSlodge
SoudgeSouthbridge
Split-edgeSprindge
SquimmidgeSteam-dredge
SturbridgeSubjudge
SuperknowledgeSwedge
SwidgeTallmadge
TonbridgeUnderbridge
UnderedgeUnderjudge
UnedgeUnfledge
UnhedgeUnjudge
UpridgeWoodbridge
WooldridgeWudge