EnglishMain Dictionary
brink
Universal Words
noun [sing.]
1 the ~ (of sth) if you are on the brink of sth, you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation:
on the brink of collapse / war / death / disaster * Scientists are on the brink of making a major new discovery. * He's pulled the company back from the brink (= he has saved it from disaster). * teetering / poised / hovering on the brink of adventure
2 (literary) the extreme edge of land, for example at the top of a cliff or by a river:
the brink of the precipice
IDIOMS see TEETER
