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Synonyms of verge in English:

verge


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See Spanish definition of borde

noun

1‘park your car on the road verge’

SYNONYMS
edge, border, margin, side, brink, rim, lip, limit, boundary, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, borderline, frontier
end, extremity, termination
fringes, bounds, limits, confines
literary bourn, marge, skirt
ANTONYMS

centre, middle

2‘Spain was on the verge of a major economic crisis’

SYNONYMS
brink, threshold, edge, point, dawn
starting point, start
ANTONYMS

middle


verb

1‘she showed a degree of caution that verged on the obsessive’

SYNONYMS
tend towards, incline to, incline towards, border on, approach, near, come near, be close to, be near to, touch on, be tantamount to, be more or less, be not far from, approximate to, resemble, be similar to