edge out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To defeat in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory. idiomatic
    — Barcelona edged out in the penalties scoring 3-2.
  2. To gradually exclude; to push someone or something further and further into the margins until they/it is entirely outside of a space.
    — Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class "clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.

词形变化

edges out present,singular,third-person edging out participle,present edged out participle,past edged out past
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