Synonyms for brink
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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

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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. • Boundary
   • Edge
   • Limit

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1. brinknoun

   Synonyms:
   edge, border, margin, verge, brow

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. brinknoun

   Synonyms:
   edge, border, verge

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1. List of paraphrases for "brink":

   verge, rand, edge, abyss, precipice, threshold, eve, fringe, rob, periphery

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1. Stephany Spaulding:

   Deeper than that is the reality that we can no longer continue to exploit the lives and the pain of our communities, every two to four years we see politicians coming to sacred space, to our congregations, and making promises to our members and saying how life in this realm is going to get better for our congregations and members. And then we end up in moments like this, where we are on the brink of tremendous failure.

2. Roy Rickhuss:

   We stand on the brink of the first national strike in the steel industry for over 30 years.

3. North Korea state-run KCNA:

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

4. Napoleon Hill:

   No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

5. Mr Hawking:

   We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible, trump’s action could push the earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250C, and raining sulfuric acid.