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border-line

border-line is the alternative form of borderline.

Meaning of borderline

Noun

borderline (countable and uncountable, plural borderlines)

  1. (countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.
    • She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
  2. (countable) A person who has borderline personality disorder.
    • As an example of their affective profile, borderlines are set apart from passive aggressives by having more marked social anxiety […] and greater sensitivity […]1995, Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales, page 80

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Forms of border-line

Noun
pluralborder-lines
Verb
third-person singular presentborder-lines
present participleborder-lining
past participleborder-lined
pastborder-lined

Questions about border-line

What is border-line the alternative form of?
Border-line is the alternative form of borderline.

Words near border-line in the dictionary

  1. border stones
  2. Border Terrier
  3. border-gore
  4. border-land
  5. border-lands
  6. border-line
  7. border-lined
  8. border-lines
  9. border-lining
  10. bordereau
  11. bordereaus

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