Brink Definition

brĭngk
noun
The edge, esp. at the top of a steep place; verge.
At the brink of war.
Webster's New World
The bank, esp. when steep, of a river or other body of water.
Webster's New World
The point at which something is likely to begin; the verge.
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Other Word Forms of Brink

Noun

Singular:
brink
Plural:
brinks

Origin of Brink

  • From Middle English brinke, from Proto-Germanic *brinkaz (compare Dutch brink (“grassland”), dialectal German Brunkel, Icelandic brekka (“slope”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- ‘project’ (compare Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English probably of Scandinavian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Brink Sentence Examples

  • This woman could bring me to the brink of insanity.

  • It was a time of plots and counterplots, when England seemed on the brink of another civil war.

  • I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

  • That Dr Cornay was on the brink of making a discovery of considerable merit will by and by appear; but, with every disposition to regard his investigations favourably, it cannot be said that he accomplished it.

  • Sufficient to say that in the opening quarter of the r4th century England and France at least stood on the brink of "modern times."

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Words Starting With

BBRBRI

Words Ending With

KNKINK

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