Crossword-Solution: VERGE 5 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Verge n. A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the
verge, carried before a dean.
Verge n. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted
tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord.
Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
Verge n. The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court,
within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household
had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which
the marshal bore.
Verge n. A virgate; a yardland.
Verge n. A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or
brink of something definite in extent.
Verge n. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
Verge n. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
Verge n. The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
Verge n. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets,
as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
Verge n. The edge or outside of a bed or border.
Verge n. A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them
from the borders in a parterre.
Verge n. The penis.
Verge n. The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Verge v. i. To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to
approach.
Verge v. i. To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to
the north.

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Word Anagrams
VERGE anagram EVERG, GREVE

We have 50 clues for the answer “VERGE”

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grass border along a road 1 answer
Brink or border 1 answer
"Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" (Pedro Almodóvar film) 1 answer
"Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" (1988 film) 1 answer
"Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" (1988 comedy) 1 answer
"Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" 1 answer
Brink or edge 1 answer
Brink or threshold 1 answer
Come close to, with "on" 1 answer
Come near, with "on" 1 answer
Grassy border of a road 1 answer
Grassy edge 1 answer
Threshold, as of danger 1 answer
On the ___ of (approaching) 1 answer
Point beyond which something begins. 1 answer
Something you shouldn't stand too close to 1 answer
Shoulder, in Britain 1 answer
On the -- of (close to) 1 answer
Transitional point 2 answers
Extreme edge 2 answers
Border upon 2 answers
Roadside 4 answers
Road border 5 answers
Lie adjacent to 7 answers
Outer limit 7 answers
Cusp 9 answers
cross the threshold 10 answers
BE ON THE BRINK 10 answers
BELOW THE THRESHOLD OF CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION 10 answers
A GRASS BORDER ALONG A ROAD 11 answers
COME CLOSE TO 12 answers
Brim 13 answers
Border (on) 15 answers
Rim 17 answers
Abut 18 answers
Threshold 18 answers
Precipice 21 answers
Periphery 22 answers
Adjoin 24 answers
Brink 24 answers
Yard 29 answers
Fringe 31 answers
Tend 39 answers
Boundary 46 answers
Margin 49 answers
BORDER ___ 58 answers
Incline 62 answers
Scope 66 answers
Edge 67 answers
Limit 76 answers
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Sentences with VERGE (5)

But say, what mean those colourd streaks in Heavn, Distended as the Brow of God appeas’d, Or serve they as a flourie verge to binde The fluid skirts of that same watrie Cloud, Least it again dissolve and showr the Earth? To whom th’ Archangel.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Others argue that the Swedish model is on the verge of collapsing by pointing to the serious economic problems Sweden faces in 1991: high inflation and absenteeism, growing unemployment and deficits, and declining international competitiveness.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Glancing at the looking-glass, we behold—deep within its haunted verge—the smouldering glow of the half-extinguished anthracite, the white moon-beams on the floor, and a repetition of all the gleam and shadow of the picture, with one remove further from the actual, and nearer to the imaginative.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved—it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge—had driven him to the very verge of his reason.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with VERGE (3)

I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Th…
Shauna Niequist Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A first glance A first smile A first kiss A first fall…(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.) You were wearing these during one of those moments. One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you. The way you gave me butterflies that morning Had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else, and everything to do with you. I was falling in lov…
Colleen Hoover Point of Retreat
Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored. Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just…
Faraaz Kazi
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).