verge / vɜrdʒ /

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verge3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
  2. the limit or point beyond which something begins or occurs; brink: on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  3. a limiting belt, strip, or border of something.
v. 无主动词 verb

verged, verg·ing.

  1. to be on the edge or margin; border: Our property verges on theirs.
  2. 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.
v. 有主动词 verb

verged, verg·ing.

  1. to serve as the verge or boundary of: a high hedge verging the yard.

verge 近义词

n. 名词 noun

extremity, limit

v. 动词 verb

come near

verge构成的短语

  • verge on
  • on the verge of

更多verge例句

  1. A strategy more than four decades in the making now stands on the verge of complete success.
  2. In June, India’s shadow banking sector was on the verge of collapse.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.
  7. It was a brutally hot day, 103 degrees, and the city was on the verge of a racial explosion.
  8. Washington State is on the verge of passing new gun control legislation.
  9. On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.
  10. All joking aside, what was once considered an expensive gimmick is on the verge of going mainstream.
  11. Late into the night they lingered on the veranda, and he found himself on the verge of confessing all to her.
  12. It was still in the verge of possibility that his son might seek his father in that dismal chamber.
  13. A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.
  14. This mine is situated in low ground near the verge of the stream, and was at first only worked for gold.
  15. 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.