vorejar

From vora (“border, hem”) +‎ -ejar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bu.ɾəˈʒa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vo.ɾəˈʒa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vo.ɾeˈd͡ʒaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

vorejar (first-person singular present vorejo, first-person singular preterite voregí, past participle vorejat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to skirt, to go round
   • 1934, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:

     Vorejàvem el canal en direcció al centre de la ciutat.

     We skirted the canal in the direction of the city centre.

2. (transitive) to border
   • 1956, Josep-Sebastià Pons, Llibre de les set sivelles:

     Les falgueres i mil plantes humides voregen el camí empedrat.

     The ferns and a thousand humid plants border the paved path.

3. (transitive) to verge on
   • 1965, Jaume Berenguer Amenós, Alexis Zorbàs:

     Un vell, que vorejava la seixantena, molt alt, magre, d'ulls esbatanats, tenia encastat el nas al vidre i em mirava.

     An old man, verging on sixty, very tall, thin, wide-eyed, had his nose pressed to the glass and watched me.

• “vorejar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007