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border
verbs
cross the border
• The army crossed the border and advanced on Warsaw.
flee/escape across the border
• Over 100,000 civilians fled across the border.
form the border
• The river forms the border between the two countries.
close the border
(= prevent people from crossing )
• The government moved quickly to close the border.
open the border
(= start allowing people to cross )
• After fifty years the border was finally opened.
straddle the border
(= cover land on both sides of it )
• This small village straddles the border between the West Bank and Jerusalem.
adjectives
the Welsh/Mexican etc border
• I had reached the Swiss border.
the southern/eastern etc border
• They renewed their attacks on Ethiopia’s northern border.
the Austro-Hungarian/Hong Kong–China etc border
• The village is on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border.
a common border
(= that countries share )
• India and Pakistan each withdrew troops from their common border.
border + NOUN
a border dispute
(= a disagreement about where the border should be )
• a long-running border dispute between Iraq and Iran
a border town
• the Chinese border town of Shenzhen
a border area/region
• The Afghan border area is open and wild.
a border crossing
(= a place where you cross a border )
• There are problems of delays at border crossings.
a border guard
• the North Korean border guards
border controls
(= controls on who crosses a border )
• Hungary tightened its border controls.
phrases
this/the other side of the border
• Her friend lives on the other side of the border.
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border on sth
If behaviour, a quality or a feeling borders on something more extreme, it is almost that thing
• His suggestion borders on the ridiculous.
• She possesses a self-confidence that borders on arrogance.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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border
the official line that separates two countries, or the area close to this line:
• The town lies on the border between Chile and Argentina. • Strasbourg is very close to the German border. • border guards
frontier
especially British English the border:
• They crossed the Libyan frontier into Egypt.
line
the official line that separates states and counties in the US:
• His family lived across the state line in West Virginia.
boundary
the line that marks the edge of an area of land that someone owns, or one of the parts of a country:
• The fence marks the boundary between the two properties. • The Mississippi River forms the boundary between Tennessee and Arkansas. • A road runs along the western boundary of the site.
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun line that divides two countries ADJ. open | closed | common Poland has a common border with Germany. | disputed VERB + BORDER arrive at, reach, stop at | cross, drive across/over, slip across/over They slipped across the border at nightfall. | escape across/over, flee across/over | form, mark A river forms the border. | draw (up), establish, fix | guard, patrol | open | close, seal BORDER + NOUN crossing, post | region, town | control, guard, troops | clash, dispute, war | raid | clash, incident, skirmish PREP. across/over a/the ~ to smuggle goods across the border | along a/the ~ There has been fighting along the border. | at/on a/the ~ We were stopped on the border. | on the ~ of a farm on the border of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire | up to the ~ He drove us right up to the Russian border. | ~ between/of the border between Austria and Switzerland | ~ with the border with Mexico PHRASES north/south of the border, one side/both sides of the border There has been fighting on both sides of the border. decorative band/strip round the edge of sth ADJ. wide | narrow | decorative VERB + BORDER have The tablecloth has a narrow lace border. | draw PREP. with a/the ~ a white handkerchief with a blue border | ~ around/round She drew a decorative border around the picture.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary