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brink

/brɪŋk/

Translation

n [no pl]
borde
They were on the brink of ruin
Estaban al borde de la ruina
on the brink of the precipice
al borde del precipicio
(Definition of brink n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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