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Verge   /vərdʒ/   Listen
Verge

noun
1.
A region marking a boundary.  Synonyms: brink, threshold.
2.
The limit beyond which something happens or changes.  Synonym: brink.  "On the brink of bankruptcy"
3.
A ceremonial or emblematic staff.  Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand.
4.
A grass border along a road.
verb
(past & past part. verged; pres. part. verging)
1.
Border on; come close to.





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"Verge" Quotes from Famous Books



... stepped out—and ran right into Mr. Ferrau! He was stalking along in a bathrobe, his arms spread out, and tears rolling down his cheeks, and he was chattering to himself like a monkey. His eyes rolled, and I could see he was just on the verge of ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... she revisited all these hallowed spots. She thrilled on the very verge of the river and quivered amid the waving corn. She scaled the sentinel hickory and turned her eyes upon the Southern city. It was nearly a week since she had been allowed to wander so far afield, and Camelot seemed more than ever wonderful as it lay in the shimmering ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly
... wealth and happiness! It was like the adulterous woman who, on eloping with her paramour, wrote to her husband enjoining him to be virtuous if he would be happy. The incongruity struck the prisoner so forcibly that for a moment he was on the verge of another explosion of sardonic laughter. Before leaving the dock he made one last attempt to draw attention to the treatment he had sustained while in prison. By way of heightening the effect of his narration, he informed the Court ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent
... only serve to open farther the path of his departure; they lead our thoughts away to dwell upon him where we imagine him to be. Nowhere does heaven seem more real than at the grave of a friend; for we know that he has not perished, and as we stand on that verge of all our fruitless search and expectation, we are compelled to fix him somewhere in our thoughts; but as he is nowhere behind us, we look onward ...
— Catharine • Nehemiah Adams
... behind which she cowered. Only now she was interjecting a new harassment into the already complicated mystery by pleading that someone repair straightway to her and render assistance, as she felt herself to be on the verge of ...
— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb


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