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noun vəːdʒvərdʒ 1An edge or border. they came down to the verge of the lake Example sentencesExamples - The flat verges were littered with seaweed and plastic flotsam.
Synonyms edge, border, margin, side, brink, rim, lip, limit, boundary, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, borderline, frontier - 1.1British A grass edging such as that by the side of a road or path.
the grass verge outside the church Example sentencesExamples - One of the options is to put double white lines down which would preclude people from parking on the road and the grass verges.
- The roadside verges and hedgerows also came in for favourable comment from the judges.
- Fortunately, in those days, roadside verges were clear of overhanging tree branches.
- What sort of machine is used to cut the grass verges?
- In north Norfolk we are used to the dramatic appearance of a Barn Owl as it hunts the road side verges searching for small rodents.
- Their car hit the nearside verge, and came to rest in the middle lane.
- Over 45 sites were tackled this year including road verges and loch sides.
- It's a wooded area with quiet roads and grass verges, a perfect spot to walk dogs.
- These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile.
- The complex of ranch buildings spreads across a grassy verge above a tumbling creek.
- Mr Hocaniuk, 24, broke hard and steered to avoid the collision, ending up on a grass verge by the side of the road.
- If we don't cut the grass verges, no-one else will.
- This happened on a straight, single-lane gravel road with a grass verge.
- The Escort was being driven south along the 30 mph stretch, when it mounted a grass verge alongside the road.
- People also got out in November and planted thousands of daffodils along the road verges.
- I climbed over the safety barrier and sat on the grassy, hilly verge to wait.
- At one point, an eye-witness saw it throw up dirt and grass from the nearside verge.
- Overgrown grass verges will be cut back after councils backtracked over the service.
- The dog, nicknamed John, appeared on the grass verge by the side of the road in the main street through the village.
- Ray Darcy was responsible for cutting the road verges and hedges on the approach roads to the village.
Synonyms edge, border, margin, side, brink, rim, lip, limit, boundary, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, borderline, frontier - 1.2Architecture An edge of tiles projecting over a gable.
Example sentencesExamples - The poor condition of that tiling and the defective mortar to the verge tiling generally warranted further investigation, in Mr Bruce's opinion.
- Only if society is on the verge of collapse can a communist revolution succeed.
2An extreme limit beyond which something specified will happen. I was on the verge of tears Example sentencesExamples - And then she turned to her friend, who seemed on the verge of collapsing.
- He approached companies who were on the verge of bankruptcy before he bought them.
- But his centuries-old livelihood is on the verge of collapse since the areca nut price has crashed beyond imagination.
- "Matt and Kirsten are on the verge of breaking up, " Lily said.
- Health bosses are believed to be on the verge of producing a new document outlining the fate of Ilkley's Coronation Hospital.
- I screamed through my closed door, near the verge of tears.
- I hoped he didn't notice I was on the verge of a breakdown.
- We're just at the verge of starting to really understand from the molecular level to the systems level how the brain works.
- The majority of rolling stock was hideously dated and on the verge of collapse.
- An extremely competent golfer, Alf was on the verge of turning professional at one time.
- At the time of the merger, Nissan was on the verge of bankruptcy.
- I was on the verge of tears, but it needed to be said.
- A lot of the buildings were damaged or were on the verge of collapsing.
- My voice has got so loud that it is on the verge of breaking.
- By the late 1960s many believed the disease was on the verge of extinction.
- The girl began to whimper again, and looked on the verge of tears.
- But the species is dwindling fast and is feared on the verge of extinction.
- Danna looked on the verge of tears as she nodded and tried to smile.
- In all the industrialised countries the welfare state is on the verge of collapse.
- Our testing in Denver makes me believe we're on the verge of breaking through.
Synonyms brink, threshold, edge, point, dawn starting point, start
verb vəːdʒvərdʒ [no object]verge onBe very close or similar to. despair verging on the suicidal Example sentencesExamples - ‘The Arabs have been driven into a state verging on despair; and the present unrest is no more than an expression of that despair’.
- Stuart MacGill, Warne's replacement, is a perfectly-good bowler, but he struggled, so much so that his body language often verged on despair.
Synonyms tend towards, incline to, incline towards, border on, approach, near, come near, be close/near to, touch on, be tantamount to, be more or less, be not far from, approximate to, resemble, be similar to
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin virga 'rod'. The current verb sense dates from the late 18th century. Verge came via Old French from Latin virga ‘rod’, and its first meaning in medieval English was ‘penis’. This sense soon dropped out of use, and was replaced by ‘a rod or sceptre as a symbol of office’, and ‘a boundary or margin’, probably from the idea of a rod used as a boundary marker. The modern senses ‘an edge or border’ and ‘a limit beyond which something will happen’, as in ‘she was on the verge of tears’, are from the 17th century. The church verger first took his name from the role of carrying a rod or similar symbol of office in front of a bishop or other official. Since the early 18th century a verger has also been a church caretaker and attendant. Verge with the sense ‘incline towards’ is early 17th century, and had the early sense ‘descend (to the horizon)’ (Sir Walter Scott Talisman: ‘The light was now verging low, yet served the knight still to discern that they two were no longer alone in the forest’). The source is Latin vergere ‘to bend, incline’.
Rhymes converge, dirge, diverge, emerge, merge, purge, scourge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge nounvəːdʒvərdʒ A wand or rod carried before a bishop or dean as an emblem of office. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I will carry on looking after the verges until they (the council) shoot me,’ he said.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin virga 'rod'. verb vəːdʒvərdʒ no object, with adverbial of direction Incline in a certain direction or towards a particular state. his style verged into the art nouveau school Example sentencesExamples - If that were so, it would be tempting to dismiss these poems as mere word-play, verging toward nonsense.
- This is not yet treasonable talk, though it verged close enough for Eliot to be sent to the Tower.
- The ambition of such a project verges towards the arrogant.
- If full, then verge south of start, lots down at Bonfield Gill half a mile from start.
- Folds are commonly asymmetric, and verge to the south or SE.
- ‘We are fast verging toward anarchy and confusion,’ he wrote.
- Driving into London overnight from deep in the countryside is an experience verging close to the surreal.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'descend to the horizon'): from Latin vergere 'to bend, incline'. nounvərdʒvərj 1An edge or border. they came down to the verge of the lake Example sentencesExamples - The flat verges were littered with seaweed and plastic flotsam.
Synonyms edge, border, margin, side, brink, rim, lip, limit, boundary, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, borderline, frontier - 1.1 An extreme limit beyond which something specified will happen.
I was on the verge of tears Example sentencesExamples - My voice has got so loud that it is on the verge of breaking.
- "Matt and Kirsten are on the verge of breaking up, " Lily said.
- And then she turned to her friend, who seemed on the verge of collapsing.
- But his centuries-old livelihood is on the verge of collapse since the areca nut price has crashed beyond imagination.
- I was on the verge of tears, but it needed to be said.
- Danna looked on the verge of tears as she nodded and tried to smile.
- Health bosses are believed to be on the verge of producing a new document outlining the fate of Ilkley's Coronation Hospital.
- An extremely competent golfer, Alf was on the verge of turning professional at one time.
- We're just at the verge of starting to really understand from the molecular level to the systems level how the brain works.
- A lot of the buildings were damaged or were on the verge of collapsing.
- But the species is dwindling fast and is feared on the verge of extinction.
- In all the industrialised countries the welfare state is on the verge of collapse.
- The girl began to whimper again, and looked on the verge of tears.
- He approached companies who were on the verge of bankruptcy before he bought them.
- I hoped he didn't notice I was on the verge of a breakdown.
- Our testing in Denver makes me believe we're on the verge of breaking through.
- At the time of the merger, Nissan was on the verge of bankruptcy.
- The majority of rolling stock was hideously dated and on the verge of collapse.
- By the late 1960s many believed the disease was on the verge of extinction.
- I screamed through my closed door, near the verge of tears.
Synonyms brink, threshold, edge, point, dawn - 1.2British A grass edging such as that by the side of a road or path.
Example sentencesExamples - These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile.
- The dog, nicknamed John, appeared on the grass verge by the side of the road in the main street through the village.
- Fortunately, in those days, roadside verges were clear of overhanging tree branches.
- What sort of machine is used to cut the grass verges?
- At one point, an eye-witness saw it throw up dirt and grass from the nearside verge.
- I climbed over the safety barrier and sat on the grassy, hilly verge to wait.
- Mr Hocaniuk, 24, broke hard and steered to avoid the collision, ending up on a grass verge by the side of the road.
- Ray Darcy was responsible for cutting the road verges and hedges on the approach roads to the village.
- The complex of ranch buildings spreads across a grassy verge above a tumbling creek.
- The roadside verges and hedgerows also came in for favourable comment from the judges.
- Their car hit the nearside verge, and came to rest in the middle lane.
- In north Norfolk we are used to the dramatic appearance of a Barn Owl as it hunts the road side verges searching for small rodents.
- If we don't cut the grass verges, no-one else will.
- Overgrown grass verges will be cut back after councils backtracked over the service.
- Over 45 sites were tackled this year including road verges and loch sides.
- One of the options is to put double white lines down which would preclude people from parking on the road and the grass verges.
- It's a wooded area with quiet roads and grass verges, a perfect spot to walk dogs.
- This happened on a straight, single-lane gravel road with a grass verge.
- People also got out in November and planted thousands of daffodils along the road verges.
- The Escort was being driven south along the 30 mph stretch, when it mounted a grass verge alongside the road.
Synonyms edge, border, margin, side, brink, rim, lip, limit, boundary, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, borderline, frontier - 1.3Architecture An edge of tiles projecting over a gable.
Example sentencesExamples - Only if society is on the verge of collapse can a communist revolution succeed.
- The poor condition of that tiling and the defective mortar to the verge tiling generally warranted further investigation, in Mr Bruce's opinion.
verbvərdʒvərj [no object]verge onApproach (something) closely; be close or similar to (something) despair verging on the suicidal Example sentencesExamples - ‘The Arabs have been driven into a state verging on despair; and the present unrest is no more than an expression of that despair’.
- Stuart MacGill, Warne's replacement, is a perfectly-good bowler, but he struggled, so much so that his body language often verged on despair.
Synonyms tend towards, incline to, incline towards, border on, approach, near, come near, be close to, be near to, touch on, be tantamount to, be more or less, be not far from, approximate to, resemble, be similar to
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin virga ‘rod’. The current verb sense dates from the late 18th century. nounvərdʒvərj A wand or rod carried before a bishop or dean as an emblem of office. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I will carry on looking after the verges until they (the council) shoot me,’ he said.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin virga ‘rod’. verbvərjvərdʒ no object, with adverbial of direction Incline in a certain direction or toward a particular state. his style verged into the art nouveau school Example sentencesExamples - ‘We are fast verging toward anarchy and confusion,’ he wrote.
- Folds are commonly asymmetric, and verge to the south or SE.
- If full, then verge south of start, lots down at Bonfield Gill half a mile from start.
- The ambition of such a project verges towards the arrogant.
- If that were so, it would be tempting to dismiss these poems as mere word-play, verging toward nonsense.
- Driving into London overnight from deep in the countryside is an experience verging close to the surreal.
- This is not yet treasonable talk, though it verged close enough for Eliot to be sent to the Tower.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘descend to the horizon’): from Latin vergere ‘to bend, incline’. |