• v.
    ⦿come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
    lexical concept
  • His playing approaches that of Horowitz
  • This borders on discrimination!

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:approach
  2. enl:border on
wn:interlingual indexili:i35177

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • approachborder on
  • border on