Related Words for bordering

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abutting
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
adjoining
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Verb, Adjective
adjacent
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
contiguous
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Noun, Adjective
connected
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Adjective, Adjective
borderline
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Noun
verging
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Verb
surrounding
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Verb
overlooking
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Verb
fronting
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Verb
straddling
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Verb
near
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
northeastern
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Name
beside
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Adverb
encroaching
x/x
Noun
northwestern
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Name
skirting
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Verb
overlaying
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Verb
situated
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Verb
edging
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Noun
southeastern
x/x
Name
bisecting
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Noun
downright
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Adjective
eastern
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Name
overhanging
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Adjective
constituting
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Verb
forbidding
x/x
Verb
enveloping
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Noun
neighboring
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Adjective
involving
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Verb
encompassing
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Adjective
northern
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Name
neighbouring
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Adjective
encircling
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Noun
opposite
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Noun
area
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Noun
traversing
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Verb
prone
/
Adjective
across
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Adverb, Noun
resembling
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Verb
sloping
/x
Verb
rampant
/x
Adjective
overlying
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Noun
demarcating
xx/x
Verb
flanking
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Noun
mountainous
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Adjective
north
/
Noun
northwest
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Noun
south
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Noun, Adjective
ravaging
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Noun
southwestern
x/x
Name
borderland
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Noun
teetering
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Verb
dotting
/x
Verb
intersecting
xx/x
Verb
imposing
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Verb
jutting
/x
Verb
devoid
x/
Noun
picturesque
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Adjective
sprawling
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Verb
separating
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Verb
southeast
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Noun
southern
/x
Name
middle
/x
Noun
extending
x/x
Verb
paralleling
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Verb
extreme
x/
Adjective
crossing
/x
Noun
northeast
x/
Noun
territory
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Noun
nestled
/x
Verb
teeming
/x
Verb
denouncing
x/x
Verb
threatening
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Adjective
outlying
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Adjective
deeming
/x
Verb
reminiscent
xx/x
Noun
overshadowing
/x/xx
Verb
spanning
/x
Verb
east
/
Name
southwest
x/
Noun
located
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Verb
excluding
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Verb
disregarding
xx/x
Verb
engulfing
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Noun
accusing
x/x
Verb
emanating
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Verb
dense
/
Adjective
resorting
x/x
Verb
endemic
x/x
Adjective
bounding
/x
Noun
placid
/x
Adjective
enclosing
x/x
Verb
towards
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Adverb, Adjective
arid
/x
Noun
forming
/x
Verb
pertaining
x/x
Verb
between
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Noun
amidst
x/
beneath
x/
Adverb
amounting
x/x
Verb
inhabiting
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Verb
veering
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Verb
marshy
/x
Adjective
bypassing
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Verb
endangering
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Verb
contrasting
x/x
Noun
dividing
x/x
Verb
projecting
x/x
Verb
beyond
x/
Adverb, Noun
boarder
/x
Noun
coextensive
/x/x
Adjective
bilateral
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Noun
collared
/x
Adjective
lining
/x
Noun
trilateral
x/xx
Name
similar
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Adjective
fringed
/
Adjective
brimmed
/
Adjective
short
/
Adjective
divisive
x/x
Adjective
bipartite
x/x
Noun
scalloped
/x
Adjective
called
/
Verb
assam
x/
Name
farce
/
Noun
melancholy
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Adjective
cruelty
/x
Noun
gulf
/
Noun
strip
/
Noun
river
/x
Noun
sea
/
Noun
acres
/x
Noun
owners
/x
Noun
particularly
x/xxx
Adverb
especially
x/x
Adverb
portion
/x
Noun
red
/
Adjective
black
/
Adjective
history
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Noun
states
/
Noun
little
/x
Adjective
adriatic
xx/x
Name, Adjective
alongside
x//
Adverb
appalachian
xx/x
Name, Adjective
atlantic
x/x
Name, Adjective
atlas
/x
Noun
balkan
/x
Name, Adjective
bay
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
behind
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Adverb, Adjective, Noun
belt
/
Noun, Verb
bluff
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
boundaries
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Adjective
cape
/
Noun, Verb
coast
/
Noun, Verb
colonized
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Adjective
depopulated
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Adjective
exporting
x/x
Name
frontier
x/
Noun, Verb
headland
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Noun
interior
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Noun, Adjective
junction
/x
Noun, Verb
limiting
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Noun
littoral
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Adjective, Noun
lying
/x
Noun, Adjective
mesa
/x
Noun
moslem
/x
Name, Adjective
outside
//
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
peopled
/x
Adjective
plain
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
populated
/xxx
Adjective
populous
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Adjective
restricting
x/x
Adjective
rim
/
Noun, Verb
riparian
//xx
Noun, Adjective
saddle
/x
Noun, Verb
shoreline
/x
Noun
sparsely
/x
Adverb
stony
/x
Noun, Adjective
touching
/x
Adjective, Noun
upland
/x
Adjective, Noun
valley
/x
Noun, Verb
vassal
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
westward
/x
Adverb, Noun, Adjective
yonder
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
aisle
/
Noun
bundle
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Noun, Verb
milestone
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Noun, Verb
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
backwater
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Noun, Verb
stovepipe
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Noun, Verb
daylight
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Noun, Verb
headlines
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Noun
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
tell
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Verb, Noun
get
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Verb, Noun
save
/
Verb, Noun
blow
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Noun, Verb, Adjective