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bordered on

bordered on is the simple past and past participle of border on.

Meaning of border on

Verb

border on (third-person singular simple present borders on, present participle bordering on, simple past and past participle bordered on)

  1. (transitive) To share a border with.
    • The town borders on the forest, so there are often deer on the road.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on.
    • His behaviour borders on insanity.

Questions about bordered on

What is bordered on the simple past and past participle of?
Bordered on is the simple past and past participle of border on.

Words near bordered on in the dictionary

  1. border-lining
  2. bordereau
  3. bordereaus
  4. bordereaux
  5. bordered
  6. bordered on
  7. borderer
  8. borderers
  9. bordergore
  10. Borderies
  11. bordering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bordered on (page history and authors); border on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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