verge — OAT · Shobdo

verge

noun

1 park your car on the road verge:

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 center, middle.

2 Spain was on the verge of a major economic crisis:

brink, threshold, edge, point, dawn;

starting point, start.

▷antonyms middle.

verb

she showed a degree of caution that verged on the obsessive:

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