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Answer for the clue "Extreme edge ", 5 letters:
verge
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Word definitions for verge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"edge, rim," mid-15c., from Old French verge "twig, branch; measuring rod; penis; rod or wand of office" (12c.), hence, from the last sense, "scope, territory dominated" (as in estre suz la verge de "be under the authority of"), from Latin virga "shoot, ...
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Verge and similar uses may refer to: Verge (Honorverse) , area of space in David Weber's Honorverse The Verge , a live videogame news and review TV programme on Vuzu in South Africa The Verge (shopping mall) , a shopping mall in Singapore The Verge (website) ...
Usage examples of verge.
That would probably ruin House Barca, even if it was on the verge of recovery with other customers waiting.
She touched on delicate verges to the baronet in her letters, and he understood her well enough.
And now there was another purpose in the evil mind of the Beduin who had conceived for the white girl an infatuation that was driving him to the verge of madness.
This peace-lulled, beguiling, sea, teeming with myriad forms scintillating on the verge of nothingness--obscure, elusive, yet mighty in their wayward way--soothed with never so gentle, so dulcet a swaying.
Athene, who was most certainly on the verge of speaking to me, might instruct me when I found her voice to clear myself with Aphrodite or my father Poseidon before bridling the winged horse.
On the verge of rising to coax his charge to consider retiring to the comfort in an alehouse, Brith froze.
This man, called Roger, and nicknamed Long Roger, his length being his chief distinction, had been very poor, and burthened besides with several infant children: accidents and a bad season brought them to the verge of starvation, when a chance threw him in the way of the Duke of Clarence, who got him made servitor in the Tower.
He disliked Paul Mansell, whose shrewdness verged on sharpness, and who had been divorced from his wife.
In the open spaces on the slope, beyond the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again.
A painting in the dining-hall verged upon the indelicate-- but then the Margravine was herself a trifle indelicate.
On the verge of the wave where it lay One tiger is mingled in ghastly affray With a sea-snake.
Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.
This distant hill outsoars that less distant, but all are on the wing, and the plain raises its verge.
Minarii backed away from the verge of the cliff and crouched in the pandanus thicket.
Peter Hoxton had got a look on his phizz that verged on nausea, and was shaking his head convulsively.