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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x1)
- The two countries were on the brink of war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x2)
- We stood at the brink of the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x3)
- She was on the brink of tears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x4)
- Scientists are on the brink of a great discovery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x5)
- The team was on the brink of winning the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x6)
- Crying thus to himself, Iktomi stepped to the water's brink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1316/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brink» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brink/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.