border on en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To share a border with.
The town borders on the forest, so there are often deer on the road.
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(figuratively, transitive) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on.
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.
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bordered on | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bordered on | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| borders on | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| bordering on | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
it rasentare (be almost like some other thing) · it essere al limite di (be almost like some other thing) · fi lähestyä (be almost like some other thing) · ru находиться на грани (be almost like some other thing) · pt beirar (be almost like some other thing) · ru грани́чить с (be almost like some other thing) · de an grenzen (etwas) (be almost like some other thing) · sv gränsa till (be almost like some other thing) · nl grenzen aan (be almost like some other thing) · fi hipoa (be almost like some other thing)