verge
noun
[ vəːdʒ ]
• an edge or border.
• "they came down to the verge of the lake"
Similar:
edge,
border,
margin,
side,
brink,
rim,
lip,
limit,
boundary,
outskirts,
perimeter,
periphery,
borderline,
frontier,
end,
extremity,
termination,
fringes,
bounds,
limits,
confines,
bourn,
marge,
skirt,
• an extreme limit beyond which something specified will happen.
• "I was on the verge of tears"
verge
verb
• be very close or similar to.
• "despair verging on the suicidal"
Similar:
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
noun
• a wand or rod carried before a bishop or dean as an emblem of office.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin virga ‘rod’.
verge
verb
• incline in a certain direction or towards a particular state.
• "his style verged into the art nouveau school"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘descend to the horizon’): from Latin vergere ‘to bend, incline’.
