English to afrikaans meaning of

brink

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "brink" is die punt waar iets gaan gebeur, die rand of marge van 'n steil plek, of die punt van uitputting of ineenstorting. Dit kan ook verwys na die punt waar 'n verandering of oorgang plaasvind, of die rand van iets betekenisvol of belangrik. Byvoorbeeld, "Hy was op die randjie van sukses," beteken hy was op die punt om groot sukses te behaal of "Die land was op die randjie van ekonomiese ineenstorting," beteken die land was op die punt van ekonomiese ineenstorting.

Sentence Examples

  1. He tore it, made it fast about the neck, and so dragged his victim to the brink of the river.
  2. He pounds into me hard and fast, working me to the brink of insanity.
  3. Her tongue teased him, tasting him, driving him to the brink of madness.
  4. Beneath the barely waning moon, they walked until they stood at the brink of open ground cradled between far-reaching mountains on either side.
  5. These farmers seem to me now symbolic of the tenacity of the human will to survive, to push necessity to the brink of what is possible.
  6. It must have been serious, and if everyone in the lobby was in the same condition, they could be on the brink of an epidemic.
  7. Edward still lived, teetering on the brink, but as yet he had not breathed his last.
  8. We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking a final plunge into the abyss.
  9. The swelling crowd pushed more people to the brink of falling.
  10. His name was William, and irrationality had him teetering on the brink of no return.
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