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词汇 example_english_verge-of-death
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on the verge of death

collocation in English

meanings of on, vergeand death


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on
preposition
uk /ɒn/ us /ɑːn/
used to show that something is in a position above something else and touching it, or that something is moving into such ...
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verge
noun[C]
uk /vɜːdʒ/ us /vɝːdʒ/
the edge or border ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk /deθ/ us /deθ/
the end ...
See more at death


Examples of on the verge of death


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Children had to be on the vergeofdeath to get what they needed.
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A visit is made to the house at four o'clock in the morning and the man concerned disappears—for ever, unless he is on the vergeofdeath.
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We must breathe a new life into the industry—an industry which has been told too often in the past that it is on the vergeofdeath.
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It is strange how precious everything seems when you are on the vergeofdeath as most of us were.
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On the vergeofdeath, he is seen by a young woman.
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This often refers to something that is half dead or on the vergeofdeath.
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She later used up too much energy and was on the vergeofdeath.
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By 2130 she was in very ill health and on the vergeofdeath from cancer.
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Zordon is left on the vergeofdeath.
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He is on the vergeofdeath and has no method of going home.
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His mission is to get a single man out of the camp, but he has to improvise when his target proves to be on the vergeofdeath.
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Sa'd had been wounded in the earlier battles, and was on the vergeofdeath.
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Further research, using the computer, reveals that it involved using subjects on the vergeofdeath and hard-wiring their brain with a computer intelligence.
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