brandest

Verb

brand (third-person singular simple present brands, present participle branding, simple past and past participle branded)

1. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
   • When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
   1. (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
      • The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
2. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
   • Her face is branded upon my memory.
3. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).
   • He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
4. (transitive) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
   • They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
5. (intransitive) To be very hot, to burn.
   • O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
     ⁠Who changest not in any gale,
     ⁠Nor branding summer suns avail
     To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

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