verge 的 3 个定义
- the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- the limit or point beyond which something begins or occurs; brink: on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
- a limiting belt, strip, or border of something.
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verged, verg·ing.
- to be on the edge or margin; border: Our property verges on theirs.
- to come close to or be in transition to some state, quality, etc.: a statesman who verged on greatness; a situation that verged on disaster.
verged, verg·ing.
- to serve as the verge or boundary of: a high hedge verging the yard.
verge 近义词
extremity, limit
come near
由verge构成的短语
- verge on
- on the verge of
更多verge例句
- A strategy more than four decades in the making now stands on the verge of complete success.
- In June, India’s shadow banking sector was on the verge of collapse.
- It may not be TikTok, but Microsoft is on the verge of acquiring a lineup of popular video game titles that could help grow its consumer and video game businesses.
- Wisconsin’s Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative was on the verge of ending operations in 2016 when itreceived a lifesaving $30 million loan, said CEO Cathy Mahaffey.
- For those efforts, they now get first dibs at drafting a player who could bring them from the verge of success to consistent playoff appearances.
- But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.
- It was a brutally hot day, 103 degrees, and the city was on the verge of a racial explosion.
- Washington State is on the verge of passing new gun control legislation.
- On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.
- All joking aside, what was once considered an expensive gimmick is on the verge of going mainstream.
- Late into the night they lingered on the veranda, and he found himself on the verge of confessing all to her.
- It was still in the verge of possibility that his son might seek his father in that dismal chamber.
- A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.
- This mine is situated in low ground near the verge of the stream, and was at first only worked for gold.
- The road we followedPg 134 closely skirts the coast for a great part of the distance, running at times on the verge of the ocean.