Thesaurus results for BORDERED

bordered

verb

past tense of border

as in bounded

to serve as a border for that velvet bordered the sleeves on this shirt, until it fell off

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Recent Examples of bordered Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad, bordered only by NATO members Poland and Lithuania and the Baltic Sea to the west, is of considerable military and strategic significance. — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 It’s partially bordered by homes and near the North American Aerospace Museum. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026 The 50,000-acre working high-country sheep and cattle farm owned by the Wallis family is set deep within a dramatic glacial valley and is bordered by Mount Aspiring National Park near Lake Wanaka, one of the country’s largest lakes. — Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026 An ocean bordered by dozens of countries would be far harder to rename than a gulf or a lake. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 The 29th District consists of 15 municipalities bordered by Naval Station Great Lakes to the north, Wilmette to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, and Buffalo Grove and Des Plaines to the west. — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Two of the world’s most strategic maritime chokepoints, the Suez Canal and the Bab el Mandeb Strait, are bordered by African shores. — Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026 Two brick chimneys bordered a shingled roof, the front portico edged by columns. — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026 Neighborhoods like Boyle Heights — which is over 90% Latino — are bordered by freeways, leading to poorer air quality, a 2017 UCLA study showed. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bordered

Verb

Each payment was firmly bounded—to identifiable living victims or to development, awareness, and commemoration rather than compensation.

— Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026
Caleb Wilson bounded into the paint with the lack of abandon every rookie possesses, stretching his arms toward the rim in a desperate reach for the ball.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of bounded

Verb

And last year, two littermate kittens were hit a few hundred feet apart on a busy street surrounded by Naples subdivisions.

— Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026