Word.ws English Dictionary

brawning

brawning is the present participle and gerund of brawn.

Meaning of brawn

Verb

brawn (third-person singular simple present brawns, present participle brawning, simple past and past participle brawned)

  1. (transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.
  2. (intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.

See all 7 meanings of brawn

Questions about brawning

What is brawning the present participle and gerund of?
Brawning is the present participle and gerund of brawn.

Words near brawning in the dictionary

  1. brawners
  2. brawnier
  3. brawniest
  4. brawnily
  5. brawniness
  6. brawning
  7. brawns
  8. brawnsome
  9. brawny
  10. brawt
  11. brawts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brawning (page history and authors); brawn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brawning.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brawning. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.