| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| brace | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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| (verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
| (verb) support with brackets | - |
| brad | (verb) fasten with brads | - |
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| brag | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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| brain | (verb) hit on the head | - |
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| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| brake | (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
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| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brattice | (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| brave | (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
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| bravo | (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
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| brawl | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
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| bray | (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
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| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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| brazen | (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
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