verge

1. 1.

   border on; come close to

   “His behavior verges on the criminal”

   Broaderbound

Other forms of verge

plural

verges·

past tense

verged·

present participle

verging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about verge

What does verge mean?

verge means "a region marking a boundary". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in verge?

verge has 1 syllable: verge. In IPA it is /ˈvɝdʒ/.

What is another word for verge?

Close synonyms include brink, threshold, brink, scepter, sceptre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verge a common word?

verge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with verge?

2 words rhyme with verge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.