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noun 
  1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. An edge or border.
  3. (obsolete) A male rod, phallus
  4. (metaphore) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen
I was on the verge of tears.
verb (verges, verging, verged, )
  1. (intransitive) To come very close; to border; to approach.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
     

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