verge

Preposition: of

• extinction: Against all odds, Manx Gaelic has clawed itself back from the verge of extinction over the past thirty years.
• collapse: The food scare has now brought the British beef market to the verge of collapse; there is great unease among the people.
• bankruptcy: Doyle is a member at Benson's Health Spa - an ailing gym on the verge of bankruptcy.
• breakthrough: We seem to be on the verge of a breakthrough in understanding.
• tear: SCULLY is on the verge of tears or laughter or both.
• splitting: Belgium and Canada are on the verge of splitting apart because of linguistic differences.

Converse of object

overgrow: Mrs L Sharp Witton Road Grass and weeds from verge totally overgrown.

Adjective modifier

• grassy: The more traditional horse drawn trailers are seen on many of the grassy verges throughout the area with horses tethered close by.
• protected: Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii Summer 2002 was a disappointing year for Spotted Orchids on the local protected verge.
• extreme: For a wager he rode his horse to the extreme verge of the cliff.
• narrow: Poppy was put on a running tether to allow grazing on the narrow verge whilst I visited a feed store to buy some wormer.

Modifies a noun

• escapement: Like the Wells Cathedral clock, it originally used a foliot balance with a verge escapement.
• crossing: This is separate from the highway verge crossings which go to Hambleton DC and NYCC, tho many of them are also not agreed.
• cutting: He would also raise the matter of verge cutting and pot holes.
• marker: Are verge marker posts and snow poles required on both sides of the road?

Noun used with modifier

• roadside: Roadside verges were also looking very dry around the island.
• grass: Some of the liquid covering a grass verge had also dried out during the summer causing asbestos fibers to be released into the air.
• highway: People keep parking their cars on the highway verge near my property which is making them unsightly, can you repair them?
• motorway: Playing fields, parks, motorway verges are new sources of grassland.
• road: There is limited parking on the wide road verge.