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{
"form": "borders on",
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},
{
"form": "bordering on",
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},
{
"form": "bordered on",
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"text": "The town borders on the forest, so there are often deer on the road.",
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"To share a border with."
],
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"(transitive) To share a border with."
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"text": "His behaviour borders on insanity.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "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.",
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"glosses": [
"To be almost like some other thing; to verge on."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on."
],
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "grenzen aan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "lähestyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "hipoa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "an grenzen (etwas)"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "rasentare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "essere al limite di"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "beirar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "graníčitʹ s",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "грани́чить с"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naxoditʹsja na grani",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "находиться на грани"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "gränsa till"
}
]
}
],
"word": "border on"
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{
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"To share a border with."
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"(transitive) To share a border with."
],
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"text": "His behaviour borders on insanity.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To be almost like some other thing; to verge on."
],
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],
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"like",
"like"
],
[
"verge on",
"verge on"
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],
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"(transitive, figurative) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on."
],
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"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "grenzen aan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "lähestyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "hipoa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "an grenzen (etwas)"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "rasentare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "essere al limite di"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "beirar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "graníčitʹ s",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "грани́чить с"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naxoditʹsja na grani",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "находиться на грани"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "be almost like some other thing",
"word": "gränsa till"
}
],
"word": "border on"
}
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