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# verge

«verge» in Mova's school dictionary: **the strip of grass beside a road or path** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a verge, verges); verb (verge, verges, verged, verging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A verge is the strip of grass beside a road or path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m1)

2) On the verge of means very close to doing something or to something happening, as in «on the verge of tears». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m2)

3) To verge on something means to be almost that thing, as in «verging on rude». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m3)

4) A verge can also be the edge of something, such as the edge of a stream or of a wide plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and road safety: walk on the verge if there's no pavement; in stories it shows a character very close to an emotion or event; phrases: on the verge of, verge on, grass verge, roadside verge.

### examples

- We walked along the grass verge to the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x1)
- Park on the verge, not on the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x2)
- She was on the verge of tears when she lost her dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x3)
- Scientists are on the verge of a big discovery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x4)
- His joke verged on being mean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x5)
- Wildflowers grow on the road verges in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x6)
- At the end of a village on the verge of the steppe dwelt two brothers, one rich and the other poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/#x7)

### note

Countable. «On the verge of» is followed by a noun or -ing form: «on the verge of crying». In the USA the grass strip is often called a «median» or «shoulder» or «parkway» instead.

### In the corpora

- [Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and many changes start with a polite letter from a child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «verge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/verge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.