inverge
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of inverge
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(rare)To curve so as to extend into
“And from Reach a Market-Towne ſtanding neere to the River Came, a great Ditch and Trench is caſt all along New-market-Heath, which for the wonder received thereat, is of the vulgar called The Devils Ditch being in truth made for a defence againſt the Mercians by the East-Angles whoſe Kingdom it inverged.”
“The Kingdome of the South-Saxons, containing the countries of Suſſex and Surrey, had on the Eaſt ſide Kent, on the South, the Sea and Ile of Wight; upon the Weſt, Hart-ſhiere, and the North ſide inverged with the river Thames”
“Teleſcopes made of two Convexes, becauſe of their inverging the Poſition of the Object, are ſeldom uſed, except in obſerving the Stars, the Poſition of which is not regarded.”
“The inverging flood of black, glistening stuff gave him a warm feeling of comradeship with the others; he yielded and allowed himself to drift with them.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin invergo, from in- + vergō (“to incline, turn”).
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