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# verge

noun (a verge, verges); verb (verge, verges, verged, verging)

«verge» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A verge is the strip of grass beside a road or path. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m1)
2. On the verge of means very close to doing something or to something happening, as in «on the verge of tears». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m2)
3. To verge on something means to be almost that thing, as in «verging on rude». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m3)
4. A verge can also be the edge of something, such as the edge of a stream or of a wide plain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and road safety: walk on the verge if there's no pavement; in stories it shows a character very close to an emotion or event; phrases: on the verge of, verge on, grass verge, roadside verge.

### Examples

- We walked along the grass verge to the farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x1)
- Park on the verge, not on the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x2)
- She was on the verge of tears when she lost her dog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x3)
- Scientists are on the verge of a big discovery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x4)
- His joke verged on being mean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x5)
- Wildflowers grow on the road verges in summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x6)
- At the end of a village on the verge of the steppe dwelt two brothers, one rich and the other poor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x7)

### Note

Countable. «On the verge of» is followed by a noun or -ing form: «on the verge of crying». In the USA the grass strip is often called a «median» or «shoulder» or «parkway» instead.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «verge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«verge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/verge.html) on Mova free.