braining

Verb

brain (third-person singular simple present brains, present participle braining, simple past and past participle brained)

1. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
2. (transitive) To strike (someone) on the head.
   • Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp.2014, K.J. Charles, Think of England, page 166
3. (figuratively, transitive) To destroy; to put an end to.
   • There thou maiſt braine him,1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
4. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive in the mind; to understand.
   • 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
5. (humorous, intransitive, nonstandard) To think effectively.
   • My brain isn't braining right now.

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