bordering

Border \Bor"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bordered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Bordering}.]
   1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
      adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on
      Massachusetts.
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   2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
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            Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be
            branded as folly.                     --Abp.
                                                  Tillotson.
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58 Moby Thesaurus words for "bordering":
      adjacent, adjoining, beading, binding, borderline, bordure,
      boundary, bounding, coastal, connecting, conterminous, contiguous,
      coterminous, determinant, determinative, determining, edging,
      end to end, endways, endwise, extreme, face to face, fimbria,
      fimbriation, flounce, frill, frilling, fringe, fringing, frontier,
      furbelow, galloon, hem, immediate, joined, juxtaposed,
      juxtapositional, juxtapositive, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting,
      list, littoral, marginal, motif, neighbor, neighboring, next,
      rimming, ruffle, selvage, skirting, terminal, threshold, trimming,
      valance, welt