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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brink
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on the brink of chaos (=to be about to become completely confused and disorganized)
▪ The peace talks were on the brink of chaos.
be on the brink of disaster (=be almost ending in a very bad way)
▪ Once again the peace process was on the brink of disaster.
be on the brink of war (=be about to be involved in a war)
▪ The country was on the brink of war.
be on the brink/verge of extinction (=be at the point of almost not existing)
▪ The Siberian crane is on the verge of extinction due to hunting.
be on the brink/verge of ruin (=be close to ruin)
▪ The recession could leave many businesses on the brink of ruin.
poised on the brink/edge of sth
▪ The economy is poised on the edge of collapse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
▪ The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill.
▪ It was really my doing, or rather my drawings, that had brought us to this brink.
▪ Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster.
▪ How can I have brought him to the brink of being, for all purposes, half an orphan?
▪ LeBlond joined the company in 1975 and brought it from the brink of bankruptcy to its present robust status.
push
▪ Some members say this decision has pushed them to the brink of deserting a church they love.
▪ Neither had Khrushchev, who also had hard-liners in Moscow pushing him toward the brink.
stand
▪ The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink.
▪ We stand on the brink of two momentous decisions at Maastricht.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be teetering on the brink/edge of sth
▪ The country is teetering on the brink of a massive financial crisis.
▪ A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
▪ As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.
▪ He says that the country is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
▪ He was teetering on the brink of something serious.
▪ If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.
▪ Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet.
▪ We are teetering on the edge of farce.
▪ Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But some sort of step back from the brink was essential.
▪ But when the bust came, he teetered with others on the brink of bankruptcy.
▪ Is it really news that a couple on the brink of separation should be arguing about the custody of their children?
▪ LeBlond joined the company in 1975 and brought it from the brink of bankruptcy to its present robust status.
▪ New York, if you believe New Yorkers, is always on the brink of disaster.
▪ Some members say this decision has pushed them to the brink of deserting a church they love.
▪ The back row, from about the third day of classes on, teetered on the brink of chaos.
▪ They could even bring major states to the brink of war.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brink

Brink \Brink\ (br[i^][ng]k), n. [Dan. brink edge, verge; akin to Sw. brink declivity, hill, Icel. brekka; cf. LG. brink a grassy hill, W. bryn hill, bryncyn hillock.] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. ``The brink of vice.''
--Bp. Porteus. ``The brink of ruin.''
--Burke.

The plashy brink of weedy lake.
--Bryant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brink

early 13c., from Middle Low German brink "edge," or Danish brink "steepness, shore, bank, grassy edge," from Proto-Germanic *brenkon, probably from PIE *bhreng-, variant of root *bhren- "project, edge" (cognates: Lithuanian brinkti "to swell").

Wiktionary
brink

n. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also used figuratively.

WordNet
brink
  1. n. a region marking a boundary [syn: threshold, verge]

  2. the edge of a steep place

  3. the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [syn: verge]

Wikipedia
Brink (TV series)

Brink, stylized as brink. is an American news documentary television series that was produced by CBS Eye Too Productions for the Science Channel and that originally aired from November 28, 2008 to August 25, 2009. The program is hosted by Australian Josh Zepps and presents stories about up and coming science and technology in a magazine style.

Brink (norra delen)

Brink (norra delen) is a village in Botkyrka Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. According to the 2005 census it had a population of 77 people.

Brink

Brink may refer to:

  • Brink!, 1998 Disney Channel film
  • Brink (TV series), a scientific television series that airs on the Science Channel
  • Brink (video game), a video game developed by Splash Damage
  • Brink (surname)
  • Brink Productions, a theatre company based in South Australia
  • Brink, Virginia
  • Brink, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Brink, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, a ghost town
  • Brink (norra delen), a location in Botkyrka Municipality in Sweden
  • Brink tram stop in Amstelveen, Netherlands
  • Brink Junior High School, South Oklahoma City
  • PAM Brink Stadium, Springs, South Africa
Brink (surname)

Brink is a German and Dutch surname and means village green. It is also thought to have originally meant "hill with green grass". Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alex Brink (born 1985), Canadian Football League quarterback
  • André Brink (1935-2015), South African novelist
  • Andries Brink (1877-1947), South African lieutenant general
  • April Brink (born 1992), Author, Poet, Spiritualist
  • Bernhard Brink (1952), German singer
  • Bernhard Egidius Konrad ten Brink (1841-1892), German scholar
  • Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981), American novelist
  • Chris Brink, (born 1951-) South African academic
  • Christian Brink (born 17 March 1983) is a Norwegian footballer
  • George Brink (1889-1971), South African lieutenant general
  • Jan van den Brink (1915-2006), Dutch politician and banker
  • Jörgen Brink (born 1974), Swedish cross-country skier and biathlete
  • Jos Brink (1942-2007), Dutch performer and journalist
  • Josefin Brink (born 1969), Swedish politician
  • Julius Brink (born 1982), German beach volleyball player
  • Larry Brink (born 1928), former National Football League defensive lineman
  • Maria Brink, vocalist for American heavy metal band In This Moment
  • Robert Brink (1924-2014), American violinist, conductor, and educator
  • Robert H. Brink (born 1946), American politician
  • Robert ten Brink (born 1955), Dutch presenter and actor
  • Royal Alexander Brink (1897-1984), plant geneticist and breeder at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brink (video game)

Brink is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in North America on 10 May 2011, in Australia on 12 May 2011, in Europe on 13 May 2011 and in Japan on 16 August 2011.

In Brink, two factions, Resistance and Security, battle in a once- utopian city called The Ark, a floating city above the waters of a flooded Earth.

Brink has Steamworks integration, including Valve Anti-Cheat. It runs on id Tech 4 and has an updated rendering framework with improved support for multiple CPU cores. Brink is a first-person shooter with a focus on parkour-style movement. Online multiplayer servers hold up to 16 players; players can play cooperatively or competitively, or against artificially-intelligent bots.

The game received mixed to mediocre reviews. , Brink had sold 2.5 million copies.

Usage examples of "brink".

The Allegiancy is tumbling over the brink of disintegration, and trying to blame us.

Starting from an antipodal position, Kundera shares with Leclerc that sense of hovering at the borderline where a thought or situation, stretched to maximum intensity, teeters on the brink of collapse into the ridiculous or the absurd.

Digen had felt just this so often at the brink of attrition, at the gathering of a fourth primary abort, at the lip of sudden death.

On the brink of attrition, Vee uttered a choked cry, convulsed by the worst breakout contractions Rimon had ever seen.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish Figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Digen was still fighting for inner equilibrium, half aware of Sels and Bett poised at the brink of transfer.

When he heard her music and sensed she was at the brink of release, he bridled her fulfillment by changing the rhythm of the movement of his hips.

There would be no civil war if the exploiters who have carried mankind to the very brink of ruin had not prevented every forward step of the laboring masses, if they had not instigated plots and murders and called to their aid armed help from outside to maintain or restore their predatory privileges.

Early in the next afternoon they reached the brink of the Great South Sea and Don was transferred to a crazy wagon, a designation which applied to both boat and crewa flat, jet-propelled saucer fifteen feet across manned by two young extroverts who feared neither man nor mud.

In deference to the war effort, the AFL resisted quietly, but in April 1945, with Germany on the brink of defeat, Meany decided to take off his muzzle.

Both men were bleeding from a score of deep scratches, for they were fighting in the thorny pandanus scrub on the very brink of the cliff.

Tatum hiked along the meandering brink of the precipice, hoping a navigable cleft or rift would show itself, enabling them to descend and backtrack along their original parafoil flight path.

Exalted Inquisitor Parell Hyath stood upon the brink of pitching chaos, his hands held over his stomach in a posture of reflection and contemplation.

To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.