brink of death

collocation in English

meaningsofbrinkanddeath

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brink
noun[S]
uk
/brɪŋk/us
/brɪŋk/
the point where a new or different situation is about ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk
/deθ/us
/deθ/
the end ...
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(Definition ofbrinkanddeathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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People are pulled back from thebrinkofdeath, but they have no long-term prospects.
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The community nurse, who is very fond of her, got her a six-month course of anti-retrovirals, which pulled her back literally from thebrinkofdeath.
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Eventually, this clone begins to degrade, becoming blind, and degenerating to thebrinkofdeath.
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Misadventure has it that they only come together when he was at thebrinkofdeath.
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Asclepius was therefore able to evade death and to bring others back to life from thebrinkofdeathand beyond.
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When she was four years old, she had her first mystical experience during an attack of smallpox that brought her to thebrinkofdeath.
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A while after, he was rushed out to see his sick uncle on thebrinkofdeath, but before leaving released the fireball from capture.
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The female scream reaches the infinite, it is a sound or cry at thebrinkofdeath.
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When he reaches thebrinkofdeath, hope strikes as the morning bells chime to herald the dawn.
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Ling attempts to escape but fails and is on thebrinkofdeath.
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S/he undergoes a type of sickness that pushes her or him to thebrinkofdeath.
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Carl has been known to be seriously ill many times, once on thebrinkofdeath.
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In fact, he was barely alive, and was rushed to the hospital where he remained in a coma, on thebrinkofdeath, for 30 days.
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This can be related to either ones push for survival on thebrinkofdeath, or someone who is just trying to find a meaning to continuing their life.
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