Antonyms for brink
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. 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

Matched Categories

1. • Boundary
   • Edge
   • Limit

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1. brink, threshold, vergenoun

   a region marking a boundary

   Synonyms:
   verge, doorsill, doorstep, scepter, doorway, wand, limen, sceptre, threshold, room access, door

2. brinknoun

   the edge of a steep place

   Synonyms:
   verge, threshold

3. verge, brinknoun

   the limit beyond which something happens or changes

   "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"

   Synonyms:
   wand, threshold, sceptre, scepter, verge

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1. brinknoun

   Synonyms:
   edge, border, verge

How to use brink in a sentence?

1. Roy Rickhuss:

   Steelworkers are determined to stand up to Tata, we stand on the brink of the first national strike in the steel industry for over 30 years.

2. Cristina Baker:

   Things started getting really bad when I started doing cocaine, i started doing ecstasy and really heavy drugs. I came so close to overdosing and just being on the brink of losing my life so many times. But when you’re entangled in addiction, you just don’t care about your life. You’re already in so much pain at that point that you start to not even care if you lose it.

3. North Korea state-run KCNA:

   The situation on the Korean peninsula is again inching close to the brink of a war.

4. State John Kerry:

   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.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I've said before that we will take no deal over a bad deal, but if I can prove that the deal we've put in place assures us through indisputable verification mechanisms that Iran cannot achieve breakout capacity, if I've got a bunch of scientists and nuclear experts saying this assures us that Iran is not on the brink of being a nuclear weapons power, then that's a public debate we should have.

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