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Antonyms for brink
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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.5 / 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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. brinknoun

    Synonyms:
    edge, border, verge

How to use brink in a sentence?

  1. Renad Mansour:

    What Moqtada said about (Iraq) being close to some sort of armed conflict is concerning. The situation is tense and it seems to be on the brink of conflict.

  2. David Carter:

    Combine this with trends in sports news consumption, including popular niche websites and social media, and newspaper reporting finds itself being on the brink.

  3. Mario Moscatelli:

    That's the kind of thing our authorities are telling the population, when the reality is that we are on the brink of a huge disaster.

  4. 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.

  5. Mitch McConnell:

    I hope we pull back from the brink here because these tariffs will not be good for the economy, and I worry that it will slow, if not impeded significantly, the progress we were making economically for the country.

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