Meaning of border on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To share a border with.
   transitive
2. To be almost like some other thing; to verge on.
   figuratively, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“The town borders on the forest, so there are often deer on the road.”

“His behaviour borders on insanity.”

“If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.”

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