Synonyms for ledge
lɛdʒledge

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1. ledge, shelfnoun

   a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

   Synonyms:
   shelf

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1. • Ridge

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1. ledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   shelf

2. ledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   ridge of rocks

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1. ledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   shelf, reef, ridge (of rocks), layer, stratum, lode

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1. List of paraphrases for "ledge":

   cornice, tablet, edge, rim, sill

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1. Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris:

   I’m aware I’m going out on a ledge, but I live my life on ledges, we’re interested in going in a positive direction until we’re stopped.

2. Rana Abdelhamid:

   You can be attacked at any point. You can be pushed off ... of a subway ledge.

3. Curtis Reissig Reissig:

   It was the firefighters, but it was God working through the firefighters. It was God working through Curtis to have the forethought of thinking it out and going to that next ledge . . . it wasn't just that traffic was OK that day. It wasn't just that all the lights were just right. He put all that in motion. i'm the one running away from the flames, and they're running toward it . . . to save people like me, or you know, people in bad places.

4. Mary Ann Hopkins:

   A police officer who had been in trouble many times before pulled him off the ledge of the car, another officer comes around and says he saw an altercation to grab for the officer's gun and shot him in the chest.

5. Kate Bowman:

   He stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away.