The beach, bordering the Gulf of Mexico, teemed with tarballs.
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Bordering
Synonyms for "bordering" (60 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
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Translations
26 translations across 15 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πρόσχορος adj (having a common boundary or border)
- ὅμορος adj (having a common boundary or border)
Catalan
2 entries- fronterer adj (having a common boundary or border)
- limítrof adj (having a common boundary or border)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 設立疆界 /设立疆界 adj (having a common boundary or border)
Finnish
1 entries- olla rajanaapuri adj (having a common boundary or border)
French
1 entries- limitrophe adj (having a common boundary or border)
German
1 entries- angrenzend adj (having a common boundary or border)
Italian
1 entries- cingente adj (having a common boundary or border)
Latin
1 entries- fīnitimus adj (having a common boundary or border)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tilgrensende adj (having a common boundary or border)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tilgrensande adj (having a common boundary or border)
Polish
1 entries- graniczący adj (having a common boundary or border)
Portuguese
2 entries- fronteiriço adj (having a common boundary or border)
- limítrofe adj (having a common boundary or border)
Spanish
4 entries- aledaño adj (having a common boundary or border)
- colindante adj (having a common boundary or border)
- facero adj (having a common boundary or border)
- fronterizo adj (having a common boundary or border)
Swedish
1 entries- angränsande adj (having a common boundary or border)
Turkish
2 entries- hemhudut adj (having a common boundary or border)
- sınırdaş adj (having a common boundary or border)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
We're bordering on failure.
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The pianist's performance of a Haydn sonata threw the woman into a rapture bordering on frenzy.
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Algeria has been a country bordering Kabylia for a long time.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.