brink

«brink» in Mova's school dictionary: The edge of a cliff, a steep place or water — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the brink, brinks)

meaning for a pupil

1) The edge of a cliff, a steep place or water. tree →

2) The point where something very good or very bad is about to happen: on the brink of war, on the brink of a discovery. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and news: on the brink of war, the brink of collapse. In science stories: on the brink of a breakthrough. In nature lessons, animals «on the brink of extinction» are almost gone. Phrase: on the brink of, pull back from the brink.

examples

• The tiger is on the brink of extinction. tree →
• The two countries were on the brink of war. tree →
• We stood at the brink of the cliff. tree →
• She was on the brink of tears. tree →
• Scientists are on the brink of a great discovery. tree →
• The team was on the brink of winning the cup. tree →
• Crying thus to himself, Iktomi stepped to the water's brink. tree →

note

Usually «the brink of». Similar: verge, edge. Safety: keep away from the brink of cliffs and quarries.

In the corpora

• And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: 'In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brink» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.