She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Verge
//vɜːd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "verge" (244 found)
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Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (73)
Related words (122)
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metes and boundsmortarboardmoveneighborold school tieoutlineoutlinesoutskirtspaleparametersperimeterperipherypinpointpoint topurflepurlragged edgeready toredound toregaliaringrosescepterschool ringsellselvageservesetset offset towardshamrockshoreshow a tendencysidesidelinesigillographyskirtsskull and crossbonessphragisticsspindlestand bysteerstretchsurroundswastikaswingsymboltartantendtend totend to gothistlethresholdtietouchtree lawntrenchtrendtrimturnuniformverge onverge uponvergeswandwarpwork toward
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8 entriesSynonyms
15 entriesderived
11 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
85 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- край noun (edge or border)
- предел noun (edge or border)
- предел noun (extreme limit)
- клоня verb (to come very close)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 權杖 /权杖 noun (rod or staff of office)
- 界限 noun (extreme limit)
- 邊 /边 noun (edge or border)
- 邊緣 /边缘 noun (edge or border)
Czech
2 entries- okraj noun (edge or border)
- pokraj noun (edge or border)
Dutch
3 entries- roede noun (rod or staff of office)
- staf noun (rod or staff of office)
- grenzen aan verb (to come very close)
Finnish
4 entries- kynnys noun (extreme limit)
- parras noun (edge or border)
- parras noun (extreme limit)
- raja noun (edge or border)
French
1 entries- accotement noun (grassy area between the sidewalk and the street)
Galician
4 entries- beira noun (edge or border)
- beira noun (extreme limit)
- bordo noun (extreme limit)
- lindar verb (to come very close)
Georgian
4 entries- ზღვარი noun (edge or border)
- ზღვარი noun (extreme limit)
- კიდე noun (edge or border)
- მიჯნა noun (edge or border)
German
4 entries- Rand noun (edge or border)
- Rand noun (extreme limit)
- Seitenstreifen noun (grassy area between the sidewalk and the street)
- äußerster Rand noun (extreme limit)
Indonesian
4 entries- ambang noun (rod or staff of office)
- ambang noun (edge or border)
- ambang noun (extreme limit)
- ambang verb (to come very close)
Irish
2 entries- broinne noun (edge or border)
- ciumhais noun (edge or border)
Polish
1 entries- gazon noun (grassy area between the sidewalk and the street)
Portuguese
4 entries- beira noun (edge or border)
- beira noun (extreme limit)
- beirada noun (edge or border)
- orla noun (grassy area between the sidewalk and the street)
Russian
4 entries- грани́ца noun (edge or border)
- грань noun (edge or border)
- грань noun (extreme limit)
- жезл noun (rod or staff of office)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- iomall noun (edge or border)
- iomall noun (extreme limit)
- oir noun (edge or border)
- oir noun (extreme limit)
Spanish
4 entries- a punto noun (extreme limit)
- a un paso noun (extreme limit)
- arcén noun (edge or border)
- borde noun (edge or border)
Turkish
1 entries- kenar noun (edge or border)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ven (đường) noun (grassy area between the sidewalk and the street)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
The company is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Source: tatoeba (49081)
The house was on the verge of collapse.
Source: tatoeba (49338)
The Siberian tiger is on the verge of extinction.
Source: tatoeba (53384)
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