Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exactly adjusted; carefully proportioned or fitted.
- In plastering, compounded or mixed in the proper proportions, especially of plaster of Paris: as, gaged stuff.
- Puckered; gathered: as, a gaged skirt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gage .
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Examples
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But he made his fatal remark the first day he spent in the village, and it "gaged" him.
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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Image available mark the first day he spent in the village, and it "gaged" him.
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That the virus is growing and it currently cannot be properly gaged IS A PROBLEM.
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Former NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman is en gaged to his beautiful blond girl friend, Jennifer Cuoco.
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Former NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman is en gaged to his beautiful blond girl friend, Jennifer Cuoco.
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Former NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman is en gaged to his beautiful blond girl friend, Jennifer Cuoco.
Ben Silverman ENGAGED To Jennifer Cuoco The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Actually it isn't true that there is no bright line - there is: Our right to Privacy which has to be gaged via equal protection.
Pro-Life Group Preparing Big Ad Assault Charging Obama Allowed Babies To Die 2009
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Can you deny that you gaged your ruby ring against my golden bracelet that yonder Knight of the
The Talisman 2008
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Douglas, till he shall adorn it with that lock, will permit the honoured lock of hair which it now bears to retain its station, she on whose head it grew will hold it as a signal that poor Augusta de Berkely is pardoned for having gaged any mortal man in strife with the Knight of
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Literal and figurative, distances gaged by both mileage and imagination.
Adrienne Benson Scherger: Not a Usual Grandmother: Evelyn Ellis Cohelan at Ninety 2008
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