| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  vûrj |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: verged, verg·ing, verg·es
1. To slope or incline. 2. To tend to move in a particular direction: “the Neoclassicism … away from which they subsequently verged” (Hugh Honour). 3. To pass or merge gradually: dusk verging into night. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin vergere. See wer-2 in Appendix I.
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