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bra.s.sy, a. brazen; (Colloq.) bold, impudent, forward.
bravado, n. brag; bl.u.s.tering, threat.
brave, a. intrepid, courageous, valiant, daring, bold, valorous, chivalrous, fearless, adventurous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, heroic, mettlesome, undaunted, venturesome, lion-hearted, manly, unafraid, plucky; showy, effective, striking. Antonyms: craven, timorous, cowardly, recreant, pusillanimous. See cowardly.
brave, v. defy, dare, beard.
bravery, n. intrepidity, courage, heroism, valor, prowess, hardihood, mettle, pluck, fearlessness, boldness. Antonyms: cowardice, timidity, recreancy, poltroonery, flinch.
brawl, n. quarrel (noisy), dispute, melee, broil, rumpus, uproar.
brawling, a. clamorous, disputatious, noisy, quarrelsome, jangling.
brawny, a. stalwart, muscular, sinewy, robust, strong.
brazen-faced, a. impudent, shameless, pert, immodest.
breach, n. breaking, rupture; infraction, violation, trespa.s.s, non.o.bservance; hernia, rupture; falling out, alienation, disaffection, variance, difference; separation, ruption, disruption.
bread, n. a.s.sociated Words: panification, panary, panivorous, crouton, zwiebach, panade, sop, crumb, crust, brewis, sippet, dough, knead, leaven.
bread-basket, n. pannier.
breadth, n. width, lat.i.tude; liberality, tolerance, catholicity.
break, v. fracture, dispart, sever, rend, smash, shatter, shiver, splinter, batter, burst, rupture, crack; infringe, violate, disobey, transgress, trespa.s.s; communicate, disclose, divulge, tell, impart, broach; discipline, tame; bankrupt, impoverish, ruin.
break, n. breach, rupture, fracture, fissure crack, chasm, gap, rent, rift, hiatus, caesura, interstice.
breakdown, n. downfall, collapse, crash.
breaking, n. fracture, rupture; breach, infraction, violation.
a.s.sociated Words: brittle, frangible, frangibility, tenacious, tenacity, inviolable, inviolability.
breaking out. eruption, rash, efflorescence, exanthema; paroxysm.
breaking out again. recrudescence.
breakup, n. disruption, disorganization.
breakwater, n. jetty, pier, mole, dike.
breast, n. chest, bosom, thorax; teat, pap, dug, mamma. a.s.sociated words: amasty, pectoral, plastron, bib, gorget, mammillary, angina pectoris, areola, pectoriloquy, diaphragm, sternal.
breast, v. stem, struggle with, withstand, resist.
breastbone, n. sternum.
breastpin, n. brooch, pectoral.
breath, n. respiration.
breathable, a. respirable. Antonyms: irrespirable, unbreathable.
breathe, v. respire, inhale and exhale; infuse; wheeze, suspire, sigh, gasp, pant, aspirate; exhale, emit.
breathing, n. respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out); aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma; inspiration, theopneusty. a.s.sociated Words: eupnoe, dyspnoe, asthma, apnoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous.
breathless, a. panting.
breech, n. b.u.t.tocks.
breeches, n. pl. smallclothes, knickerbockers, knee-breeches; trousers, pants.
breed, v. beget, generate, procreate, engender, conceive and bear; nurture, train; occasion, originate, engender.
breed, n. race, variety, strain, extraction, family, lineage, pedigree; cla.s.s, sort, kind, variety.
breeding, n. generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics; nurture, training. a.s.sociated Words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic, hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology.
breeding freely. prolific. Antonym: unprolific.
breeze, n. zephyr; (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, tumult.
breezy, a. airy, windy; (Colloq.) lively, spirited, animated, brisk.
brew, v. foment, concoct, hatch, plot.
bribe, n. hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v. suborn.
bribery, n. subornation.
bric-a-brac, n. virtu, knick-knacks.
brick, n. adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick.
bridal, a. nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal.
bridge, n. trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoon bridge, cantilever bridge.
bridge, v. span.
bridle, n. restraint, curb, check.--v. restrain, curb, check, control.
brief, a. short-lived, ephemeral, transient, transitory; terse, concise. See short.
brief, n. breviary, epitome, summary; writ, precept, breve.
briefness, n. brevity.
