borders

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To put a border on something.
2. (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
3. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
   • Denmark borders Germany to the south.
4. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
   • Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
5. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
   • Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly.1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon II. The Folly of Scoffing at Religion. 2 Pet[er] III. 3.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B....

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