Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb border
5 senses of border
Sense 1
surround, environ, ring, skirt, border -- (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property")
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact -- (be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point")
Sense 2
bound, border -- (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)
=> enclose, hold in, confine -- (close in; darkness enclosed him")
Phrasal Verb-> border on#1
Sense 3
frame, frame in, border -- (enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture")
=> enclose, close in, inclose, shut in -- (surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence")
Sense 4
border, edge -- (provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery")
=> supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")
Sense 5
border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on -- (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland")
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact -- (be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point")
Antonyms of adj bordered
1 sense of bordered
Sense 1
bordered (vs. unbordered) -- (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; "black-bordered handkerchief")
unbordered (vs. bordered) -- (having no border)
Similarity of adj bordered
1 sense of bordered
Sense 1
bordered (vs. unbordered) -- (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; "black-bordered handkerchief")
=> boxed -- (enclosed in or set off by a border or box; "boxed sections of the report"; "boxed announcements in the newspaper")
=> deckled, deckle-edged, featheredged -- (having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade)
=> edged -- (having a specified kind of border or edge; "a black-edged card"; "rough-edged leaves"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches")
=> fringed -- (surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination; "a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area"; "a grass-fringed stream")
=> lined -- (bordered by a line of things; "tree lined streets")
=> sawtoothed-edged -- ((of leaves) having an edged resembling a sawtooth)
=> seagirt -- (surrounded or enclosed by the sea)
=> spiny-edged -- (having a spiny border)
=> white-edged -- (having a white border)
Also See-> finite#1