verge
vurj
- n a region marking a boundary
- n the limit beyond which something happens or changes
on the verge of tears - n a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- n a grass border along a road
- v border on; come close to
His behavior verges on the criminal
- Welcome to the California state prison system, the country's largest and one of its most poorly run so badly managed, in fact, that it is on the verge of federal supervision.
- The simple bean of the Venezuelan criollo--source of what many connoisseurs consider chocolate's gold standard--had been on the verge of extinction.
- The country is so big and so unwieldy that it seems always on the verge of implosion like a bolshaya deryevna, or big village, riddled with ethnic fissures and political .