verge

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n

1. edge, border, margin, rim, lip; curb, curbstone, ledge, sill; brink, brim, brow, hem, fringe, periphery, perimeter, skirt; bound or bounds, confines, limit or limits, city limits, outer limits; butting, abuttal, bourn, pale, extremity, termination, end; boundary, boundary line, border line, frontier, frontier line, partition line, line of demarcation, line.

2. brink, breaking point, threshold.

3. rod, wand, staff, scepter, baton, truncheon, mace, crosier, Class. Myth. caduceus.

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v

incline, tend to or toward, bear, lean to or toward; list, tip, tilt, cant, heel, Naut. careen; slope, slant, obique, skew, angle, bevel, pitch, grade, bank; descend, drop or drop off, dip, sag, fall, gravitate, sink.