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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, adjoin |
| Synonyms: | abut, border, bound, communicate, join, jut, meet, neighbor, project, protrude, verge |
| Main Entry: | crust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stiff outer layer; coating |
| Synonyms: | band, bloom, border, caking, coat, concretion, covering, edge, encrustation, film, hull, incrustation, integument, layer, outside, rind, scab, shell, skin, surface, verge |
| Main Entry: | define |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delimit, outline |
| Synonyms: | belt, border, bound, circumscribe, compass, confine, curb, delineate, demarcate, distinguish, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, envelop, establish, fence in, fix, flank, gird, girdle, limit, mark, mark out, rim, set, set bounds to, settle, stake out, surround, verge, wall in |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower, descend |
| Synonyms: | bend, decline, disappear, droop, drop down, fade, fall, go down, incline, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, reach, recede, sag, set, settle, sheer, sink, skew, skid, slant, slip, slope, slue, slump, spiral, subside, swoop, tilt, tumble, veer, verge |
| Antonyms: | ascend, raise |
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border, outline |
| Synonyms: | bend, berm, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, circumference, contour, corner, crook, crust, curb, end, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, hook, ledge, limb, limit, line, lip, margin, molding, mouth, outskirt, peak, perimeter, periphery, point, portal, rim, ring, shore, side, skirt, split, strand, term, threshold, tip, trimming, turn, verge |
| Antonyms: | center, inside, interior, middle, surface |
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | border, trim |
| Synonyms: | bind, bound, decorate, fringe, hem, margin, outline, rim, shape, skirt, surround, verge |
| Antonyms: | center |
| Main Entry: | extremity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ultimate; limit |
| Synonyms: | acme, acuteness, adversity, apex, apogee, border, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, climax, consummation, crisis, depth, dire straits, disaster, edge, end, excess, extreme, extremes, frontier, height, last, margin, maximum, nadir, outside, pinnacle, plight, pole, remote, rim, setback, terminal, termination, terminus, tip, top, trouble, verge, vertex, zenith |
| Main Entry: | fringe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border, trimming |
| Synonyms: | binding, borderline, brim, brink, edge, edging, flounce, hem, limit, mane, march, margin, outside, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, rickrack, ruffle, skirt, tassel, verge |
| Antonyms: | center, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary |
| Synonyms: | borderland, borderline, bound, confines, edge, limit, march, perimeter, verge |
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