Start
Start noun - The point at which something begins.
Verge
Verge noun - An interval of time just before the onset of something.
Start and verge are semantically related in starting point topic. Sometimes you can use "Start" instead a noun "Verge".
How words are described
| new | new start | new verge |
Common collocations
| people | start people | verge people |
Both words in one sentence
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Club Stub: The Soaring Club is on the verge of being disbanded at the start of the story.
- Kid Hero: Achilles since, according to the story, he was "on the verge of manhood" at the start of the war.
Source: Comic Book / Age of Bronze - The war destroys both clans, which were on the verge of resolving their feud when the Shogun had them start killing each other for reasons that most of them didn't even know.
Source: Succession Crisis
Cite this Source
Verge and Start. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/start/verge
Start & Verge. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/start/verge>.
Verge or Start. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/start/verge.
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