border
verb [T] (BE NEXT TO) /bɔː.dər/
/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/ Definition
› to be next to and have a border with another country: Swaziland borders South Africa and Mozambique.Territorial boundaries bordering /-ɪŋ/ adjective › bordering countries/countiesNext to and beside
(Definition of border verb (BE NEXT TO) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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