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border on something to be similar in quality or character. I thought the author's criticism bordered on rudeness. Usage notes: usually used about negative qualities |
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The hollyhocks and lilies (now flourishing) are still under the south windows in a narrow border on the top of a grass slope, at the foot of which I have sown two long borders of sweetpeas facing the rose beds, so that my roses may have something almost as sweet as themselves to look at until the autumn, when everything is to make place for more tea-roses. |
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