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brink of death

collocation in English

meanings of brinkand death


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brink
noun[S]
uk /brɪŋk/ us /brɪŋk/
the point where a new or different situation is about ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk /deθ/ us /deθ/
the end ...
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Examples of brink of death


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People are pulled back from the brinkofdeath, but they have no long-term prospects.
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The community nurse, who is very fond of her, got her a six-month course of anti-retrovirals, which pulled her back literally from the brinkofdeath.
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Eventually, this clone begins to degrade, becoming blind, and degenerating to the brinkofdeath.
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Misadventure has it that they only come together when he was at the brinkofdeath.
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Asclepius was therefore able to evade death and to bring others back to life from the brinkofdeath and beyond.
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When she was four years old, she had her first mystical experience during an attack of smallpox that brought her to the brinkofdeath.
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A while after, he was rushed out to see his sick uncle on the brinkofdeath, but before leaving released the fireball from capture.
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The female scream reaches the infinite, it is a sound or cry at the brinkofdeath.
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When he reaches the brinkofdeath, hope strikes as the morning bells chime to herald the dawn.
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Ling attempts to escape but fails and is on the brinkofdeath.
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S/he undergoes a type of sickness that pushes her or him to the brinkofdeath.
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Carl has been known to be seriously ill many times, once on the brinkofdeath.
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In fact, he was barely alive, and was rushed to the hospital where he remained in a coma, on the brinkofdeath, for 30 days.
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This can be related to either ones push for survival on the brinkofdeath, or someone who is just trying to find a meaning to continuing their life.
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