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Synonyms for brink
brɪŋkbrink
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
brink
Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a water course; it may also denote a raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean; as, the Banks of Newfoundland. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders; we speak of the beach of a lake or ocean; a beach is sometimes found in the bend of a river. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, tho there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the river's brink; the brink of a precipice; the brink of ruin.
Synonyms:
bank, beach, border, bound, brim, coast, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore, strand
Princeton's WordNet
brink, threshold, vergenoun
a region marking a boundary
Synonyms:
verge, doorsill, doorstep, scepter, doorway, wand, limen, sceptre, threshold, room access, doorbrinknoun
the edge of a steep place
verge, brinknoun
the limit beyond which something happens or changes
"on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#757 | beach | |
#875 | bank | |
#1449 | door | |
#1726 | coast | |
#1953 | edge | |
#3282 | border | |
#3403 | bound | |
#4158 | rob | |
#5008 | eve | |
#5221 | shore | |
#5819 | threshold | |
#6130 | margin | |
#7906 | rim | |
#8277 | rand | |
#8561 | strand | |
#12180 | fringe | |
#18165 | wand | |
#20217 | doorway | |
#20897 | brink | |
#21412 | verge | |
#24213 | abyss | |
#25692 | doorstep | |
#28387 | marge | |
#28674 | periphery | |
#36289 | brim | |
#37243 | sceptre | |
#66381 | scepter | |
#70243 | precipice |
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In Libya, we are on the brink of getting a government of national unity, that country has resources. The last thing in the world you want is a false caliphate with access to billions of dollars of oil revenue.
I need to be blunt : the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure -- and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.
All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.
Emergency situations are often the last straw for many families who are already living on the brink, they tip the balance and make it impossible for desperate parents to make ends meet and to protect their children. Marrying off their daughters can seem like the only option.
I would advise President Trump: 'Don't worry about them sticking that label on you. Congress owns the government shutdown brand,' there's no incentive, frankly, for either side to go to the brink.
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