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Bordered (on)
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verged
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verge \Verge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Verged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Verging .] [L. vergere to bend, turn, incline; cf. Skr. v?j to turn.] 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 ...
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vb. (en-past of: verge )
Usage examples of verged.
The amount of attention she had shown him during the meal verged on the embarrassing, it was almost as bad as the hostility he got from William Elphinstone.
They’d come to the first of the big lily ponds which verged one side of the garden.
He turned away from the window with an expression that verged on pain.
Craving the experience with a need that verged on obsession, Aristos made psions into the slaves they called “providers.
That Jai addressed him now, instead of the Hightons, was so anomalous, it verged on deadly.
It also meant one of his Joint Commanders had openly defied him, an offense that verged on a declaration of hostility by ESComm against the throne.
A distinctly unpalatable, eerie, pulse-pounding rise and fall of verbalizations that verged on the incomprehensible.
By this time the rock walls they were traveling between verged on the perpendicular.
They opened a path for me instead, and some of their expressions verged on an almost religious exaltation.
Father's strategy for delaying the Angarak army verged on genius, though I hate to admit that.
It was rather like the sound of voices coming from a long way off - voices that verged just on the edge of being understandable, but never quite were.