verge in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for verge in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

verge [Brit vəːdʒ, Am vərdʒ] N

I.verge on VB [Brit vəːdʒ -, Am vərdʒ -] (verge on [sth])

Translations for verge in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

verge in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for verge in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

Translations for verge in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

verge Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

on the verge of the road
grass verge
to be on the verge of tears
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Is our sleepy Majorcan valley on the verge of joining the modern world?
www.telegraph.co.uk
Juries may be dismissed and skeptical juries have been dismissed on the verge of verdicts, and acquittals are frequently overturned by higher courts.
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His remarkable humility, which could verge on embarrassment when praise was heaped on him, seemed undoubtedly of this place.
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His dramas sometimes verge into dark territory and even physical violence, but always with an underlying sense of optimism.
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The island of Martinique was on the verge of civil war.
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He believed that the whole region was on the verge of war and went out to investigate.
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It is hypocritical to hold her to standards that verge on the prim or prudish.
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Just when the organization of her poems seems on the verge of wavering, she returns to the restraint with which most of them begin.
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The problem with the verge was that it required the pendulum to swing in a wide arc of 80 to 100.
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Many of his stories verge on the dream-like, while other are closer to science-fiction.
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