BORDER ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does border on mean? 

• BORDER ON (verb)
  The verb BORDER ON has 1 sense:

1. come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

  Familiarity information: BORDER ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDER ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

approach; border on

Context example:

His playing approaches that of Horowitz

Hypernyms (to "border on" is one way to...):

approximate; come close (be close or similar)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "border on"):

converge (approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

If you border on becoming strident, your efforts may backfire.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)