Translation of "verge" to German

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Dictionary translations for "verge"

verge [və:dʒ] noun

pl. verges

der Rand m

She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Sie ist am Rand eines Nervenzusammenbruchs.

die Grenze f

Phrases with "verge" (1)

be on the verge of - am Rande sein

Contexts with "verge"

She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Sie ist am Rand eines Nervenzusammenbruchs.

Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one. Tom und Mary schickten sich gerade an, vom linken Rand des Satzes in die Unendlichkeit des Korpus abzutauchen, als sie unten einen Schwarm hungriger, zähnefletschender Mitarbeiter erblickten, die nur darauf warteten, sich auf sie zu stürzen und ihre Fehler bis aufs Letzte zu zerreißen.

She was on the verge of killing herself. Sie war kurz davor sich selbst zu töten.

My father's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Die Firma meines Vaters ist am Rande des Bankrotts.

The poor cat was on the verge of starvation. Die arme Katze war kurz vorm Verhungern.

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