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noun

the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water.

any extreme edge; verge.

a crucial or critical point, especially of a situation or state beyond which success or catastrophe occurs: We were on the brink of war.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English brink < Old Norse (Danish ) brink, cognate with MLG brink edge, hillside, Old Norse brekka slope, hill

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brink·less, adjective

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Example Sentences

The austerians have brought us to the brink of a vast disaster.

Its disciplinary practice, he says, is poised on the brink of irrelevancy.

Cyprus, a midget within the monetary union, has been pushed to the brink of a bail-out.

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The austerians have brought us to the brink of a vast disaster.

Its disciplinary practice, he says, is poised on the brink of irrelevancy.

Cyprus, a midget within the monetary union, has been pushed to the brink of a bail-out.

The discovery increases the possibility that the heavily spotted cats can be rescued from the brink of extinction.

Wolves lose, tigers gain, penguins in peril and other updates from the brink.

To be so on the brink of discovery is so unatanable and yet tangable.

It's good that none of us can actually see the drop until we're out there, on the brink.

Ugobe had been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for months before that.

Five years later, on the brink of graduation, the renovated building that houses her professors' offices bears her name.

The stress of financing the war, combined with cuts in foreign aid, brought the economy to the brink of crisis.

Cell phone networks worldwide are on the brink of becoming sophisticated weather gauges, researchers say.

More pictures from a traveling photo exhibit of creatures on the brink.

Nothing would have tempted me to within half a dozen yards of its brink.

Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge.

Jobless, penniless and on the brink of homelessness.

Guyana has teetered for years on the brink of serious ethnic conflict.

The pygmy hog, the smallest wild pig in the world, has been hovering on the brink of extinction for several decades.

Invasive species can decrease biodiversity and drive resident species to the brink of extinction.

Within a few decades, whaling drove the humpback, blue and fin whales to the brink of extinction.

My department came back from the brink by defining a core and having the core faculty teach it.

And an ecosystem with limited water to begin with was brought to the brink of environmental disaster.

But researchers have been working on sensor arrays that could reveal problems long before a roadway is on the brink.

On the other hand, it is a kiss capable of betrayal or deception and of bringing the speaker to an ecstatic brink of annihilation.

Bald eagles were on the brink of extinction because of hunting and pollution.

Sadly, habitat loss and capture for the pet trade have pushed many parrot species to the brink of extinction.

One can only hope that being on the brink of disaster can unify humanity to a common cause.

Back from the brink of extinction, the endangered whooping crane is making a slow recovery.

But such whaling, paired with high seas expeditions, brought many whales to the brink of extinction.

Efficient fishing fleets and an ever growing hunger for seafood have pushed many of the world's fisheries to the brink.

There are now serious actions taken for the survival of this majestic beast at the brink of extinction.

Youth says similar actions mean many other birds are living on the brink.

Both political parties blamed the other for pushing agencies to the brink of closing.

The pinewood began to regenerate and the capercaillie are now coming back from the brink of extinction.

Whenever society has been on the brink of change there have been those who claim that it will destroy us all.

Those on the brink of starvation, he notes, would not have been able to survive the diarrhea that lactose intolerance brings.

GM brought itself to the brink of bankruptcy all by itself.

Like humble, sleeping giants, on the brink of their races awakening.

Fish are our last truly wild food, but the rise in demand for seafood has pushed many species to the brink of extinction.

Invariably, there will be students who are right on the brink of the next.

The army has mostly stepped in when inept civilian governments were on the brink of collapse.

To determine how many of the animals lived in the ocean before commercial whaling brought the population to the brink of.

Smithsonian researchers join an international effort to bring the five-foot-tall bird back from the brink of extinction.

But leatherback sea turtles are now on the brink of extinction, and scientists question.

Habitat loss, hunting and other threats are driving our closest animal relatives to the brink.

Carbapenem resistance has already brought hospital-acquired infections to the brink of untreatable.

We were not, and are not, on the brink of a breakthrough that could produce systems approaching the level of human intelligence.

They have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the brink of extinction and spared.

The program has teetered on the brink of elimination since almost the beginning.

No wonder the enitre higher educational system is on the brink of catostophic collapse.

They fear that if the country went to the brink of civil war, then soldiers' first loyalty would not be to the state.

The reward: a rare glimpse into the heart of a nation on the brink.

The company has teetered on the brink of financial ruin in the past, but it has always squeaked through.

But soaring health costs are one of the big factors that have brought those car firms to the brink in the first place.

Her reward: a rare glimpse into the heart of a nation on the brink.

Many small towns in the basin are teetering on the brink of economic collapse.

Fur seals, elephant seals, and the great whales were all hunted to the brink of extinction.

It must soar up on the brink of a tumultuous abyss:.

The species teeters on the brink of extinction, and no one fully understands why.

Just a couple of decades ago experts declared that many infectious diseases were on the brink of.

Ensuring that all people benefit from energy use while backing away from the climate brink might be humanity's biggest challenge.

With the birds so close to the brink of extinction in these countries, that might be good enough for now.

The country around you is in chaos and on the brink of civil war.

And it has helped bring them to the brink of insolvency.

Humans cleared actively the entire forest and hunted the local fauna until the brink of extinction.

We all know polar bear scientists are far more important than providing energy to a wold on the economic brink.

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World English Dictionary

brink (brɪŋk)

—n
1.	the edge, border, or verge of a steep place: the brink of the precipice
2.	the highest point; top: the sun fell below the brink of the hill
3.	the land at the edge of a body of water
4.	the verge of an event or state: the brink of disaster

[C13: from Middle Dutch brinc, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse brekka slope, Middle Low German brink edge of a field]

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Word Origin & History

brink

early 13c., from M.L.G. brink "edge," or Dan. brink "steepness, shore, bank, grassy edge," from P.Gmc. *brenkon, prob. from PIE *bhreng-, variant of base *bhren- "project, edge" (cf. Lith. brinkti "to swell").

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