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abutting

adjective as in bordering

adjective as in neighboring

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Most people in Bolinas, a town abutting Point Reyes National Seashore, do not get home mail delivery.

Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

The shrubs abutting the building had caught fire.

The victims — mostly Central Americans — were kidnapped from buses headed to Mexican cities abutting Texas.

The IAA identified the jugs as Canaanite, a people who resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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