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. 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.

3. Kate Bowman:

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

4. Kate Bowman:

   I could barely see anything and I could barely hear anything, he stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away.

5. Ben Hayes:

   He had crossed over a metal railing to get closer to the cliff edge where he lost his footing and fell in, park officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the Hawaii County Fire Department and around 9 p.m. local time search and rescue located the man. He was seriously injured, perched on a narrow ledge 70 feet from the cliff edge.