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on the verge of

on the verge of preposition: almost at the beginning of.

Preposition

on the verge of

  1. Almost at the beginning of.
    • He was finally on the verge of success.
    • Every time I thought he was on the verge of telling us, he decided to say something else instead.

on the verge of meaning in Kannada and Persian

on the verge of in Kannada

ಅತಿಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿ, ಗಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಇಷ್ಟರಲ್ಲೇ, ಅನತಿಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ

on the verge of in Persian

almost at the beginning of an object
در آستانه dar âstâne-ye

Questions about on the verge of

What does on the verge of mean?
On the verge of means almost at the beginning of.
What is on the verge of in Kannada?
On the verge of in Kannada is ಅತಿಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿ, ಗಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಇಷ್ಟರಲ್ಲೇ. See On the verge of meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is on the verge of?
On the verge of is a preposition.

Words near on the verge of in the dictionary

  1. on the up
  2. on the up and up
  3. on the up-and-up
  4. on the uptake
  5. on the verge
  6. on the verge of
  7. on the viretot
  8. on the wagon
  9. on the wallaby
  10. on the wallaby track
  11. on the wane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on the verge of (page history and authors); on the verge of (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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