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"text": "Bungee jumping verges on the insane, if you ask me."
},
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"text": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII\nIt was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adèle, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed […]"
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"To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "hipoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "friser"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "grenzen an"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "graníčitʹ",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "грани́чить"
},
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"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "vara på gränsen till"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "vara snudd på"
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"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "hipoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "lähestyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "friser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "grenzen an"
},
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"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "грани́чить"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "vara på gränsen till"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something",
"word": "vara snudd på"
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"word": "verge on"
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