Verge is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VERGE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to come near
• be very close or similar to
• incline in a certain direction or towards a particular state
• To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
• To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
• border on; come close to
• move in a specified direction
NOUN:
• an edge or border
• a grass edging such as that by the side of a road or path
• an edge of tiles projecting over a gable.
• an extreme limit beyond which something specified will happen
• a wand or rod carried before a bishop or dean as an emblem of office.
• grass border along a road
• A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
• The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
• The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king\'s household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
• A virgate; a yardland.
• A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
• A circumference; a circle; a ring.
• The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
• The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
• The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
• The edge or outside of a bed or border.
• A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
• The penis.
• The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
• a region marking a boundary
• the limit beyond which something happens or changes
• a ceremonial or emblematic staff
• a grass border along a road

Words related to VERGE

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Words that contain VERGE

verged11 verger10 verges10 diverge12 overget11 vergers11 converge14 diverged14 diverges13 overgear12 overgets12 vergence14 vergency17 converged16 converges15 divergent14 overgears13 vergences15 convergent16 divergence17 divergency20 overgeared15 vergeboard17 vergencies16 vergership19 convergence19 convergency22 divergement18 divergences18 divergently19 overgearing16 overgetting16 vergeboards18 vergerships20 convergences20 divergements19 divergencies19 overgenerous16 nondivergent17 convergencies21 overgeneralise18 overgeneralize27 overgenerosity21 overgenerously21 overgeneralised20 overgeneralises19 overgeneralized29 overgeneralizes28 overgeneralizat28 overgenerositie19 overgeneralizin28 overgenerosities20 overgeneralizing30 overgeneralization31 overgeneralizations32

How to use VERGE in a sentence

• If he had, we should never have seen him push revenge to the verge of crime.
• She had been on the verge of fainting, though she knew it not, and the brandy put new life into her.
• Koenigsberg was hearing the sound of the Russian guns and its besiegers seemed on the verge of victory.
• He is a man with a delicate but shallow vein of literary capacity, who never did more than tremble upon the verge of success, and hardly, if at all, went beyond promise.
• At this point we come to the verge of a jungle of questions that would demand a whole book for anything like a complete answer.
• The furniture, of oak, is plain and spare to the verge of a gaunt severity, and there is not one single picture-frame on the wide expanse of wall.
• I should not wonder if he were on the very verge of a bad fever.
• Singara, on the verge of the desert, was always perilously situated.
• Strictly speaking, they do not belong to the Forum, which should be traced only from their verge.
• By the time MacRae came slowly to these half-formed, disturbing conclusions he was already upon the verge of other disturbing discoveries in the realm of material facts.
• The effects of the tragedy on the coast of Clare spread beyond Ireland, and drove another woman to the verge of insanity.
• The bishop of Rome was on the verge of acknowledging the Montanists to be in full communion with the Church.
• The place was swarming with people, each of them, as it seemed to me, on the verge of hysteria.
• Were there a pantheon for souls who have struggled up from the verge of hell to stand in the clear light of heaven, be sure Valjean would be there.
• Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness.
• It has driven me to the verge of a folly I now shudder at.
• Between the path and the verge of the cliff from which he was suffered to cast himself there stretched some thirty or forty yards of fine green turf.
• The search was extended to the extreme verge of the mountain.
• We found him on the verge of the Bay, in the small glade where I had left my horse the day I followed Don alone down the canyon.
• Yet the very next day, under the cloud of his impending departure, she went about pale and woe-begone, on the verge of tears or temper.
• Bailey, for it so happens that our own literature is one in which rarity of style, pushed often to the verge of extravagance, reigns supreme.
• Why? Because he was ahead of the phase of civilization and culture represented at that time in a city which was on the verge of its ruin.
• She strove to sleep, but the nervous restlessness that possessed her only drove her to the verge of feverish madness in the effort.

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