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"brink" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often verge (5 letters).
Definitions
the limit beyond which something happens or changes
Word origin
From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”).
Used in a sentence
“the brink of a river”
“And the appearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the sea.”
“the brink of success”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Edge of danger”5 letters
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