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single-handed round the Isle of Wight. 2 risky, rash, reckless,
sporting, game, daredevil: Taking one's family into the
American West was truly a venturesome undertaking - even in the
20th century.
verbal adj. 1 spoken, oral, vocal, said, uttered, expressed,
enunciated, articulated, colloquial, conversational, viva voce,
word-of-mouth, unwritten: We had a verbal agreement that you
would behave yourself. 2 word-for-word, verbatim, literal: We
have an accurate verbal transcript of the proceedings. 3 word,
lexical, vocabulary: She did very well on the verbal parts of
the examination but poorly on the mathematics.
verbatim adj. 1 word-for-word, verbatim et literatim (= 'word-for-word
and letter for letter'), literal, exact, precise, accurate,
faithful, strict: This verbatim translation may be accurate but
all the poetic expressiveness is lost.
--adv. 2 word for word, verbatim et literatim, literally,
exactly, precisely, accurately, faithfully, to the letter,
strictly: To make certain there would be no misunderstanding,
the speech was copied verbatim.
verge° n. 1 edge, border, boundary, margin, brink, threshold, brim:
Frances is jealous of John to the verge of insanity. 2 on the
verge of. about to, ready to, on the (very) point of, preparing
to, soon to: Many smaller companies are on the verge of
bankruptcy.
--v. 3 Often, verge on. border (on), approach, come close or
near (to), Technical be asymptotic to: Cathy's idea of comfort
verges on what is more commonly thought of as luxury. Her
charitable contributions last year verged on zero.
vergeý v. incline, lean, tend, extend, stretch, turn; approach, draw,
move: The road verges southwards after the bridge.
verify v. affirm, confirm, testify to, attest (to), bear witness to,
vouch for, corroborate, support, substantiate, clinch or clench,
prove, demonstrate, show, bear out, authenticate, validate,
certify, guarantee, back up, warrant: Can you verify the
accuracy of his testimony?