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Brink

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.

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Border 76% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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Bound 76% connected

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Boundary 76% connected

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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Edge 76% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Verge 74% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Verge 74% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

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Threshold 92% connected

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entr…

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Verge 92% connected

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abrupt adjective · 78% connection

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, margin, border, steep, place.
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Ambitus noun · 78% connection

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

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Bank noun · 78% connection

sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river a…

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Bluff noun · 78% connection

A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

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Bridge noun · 78% connection

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to m…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, margin, border, steep, place.
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Brim noun · 78% connection

The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.

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Brow noun · 78% connection

The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

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Cascade noun · 78% connection

A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, margin, border, steep, place.
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Cliff noun · 78% connection

A high, steep rock; a precipice.

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Curbstone noun · 78% connection

A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

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Drop noun · 78% connection

a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

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Drop-off noun · 78% connection

a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

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Edging noun · 78% connection

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

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Escarpment noun · 78% connection

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hos…

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Fall noun · 78% connection

Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singula…

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Feather-edged/ adjective · 78% connection

Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, margin, border, steep, place.
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Fringe noun · 78% connection

Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.

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Funk verb · 78% connection

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.

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