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braze

/bɹeɪz/

braze verb: to cover with brass, or as with brass.

Verb (1)

braze (third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed)

  1. (transitive) To cover with brass, or as with brass.

Verb (2)

braze (third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed)

  1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
  2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.

Noun

braze (plural brazes)

  1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
    • Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144

braze meaning in Tamil

braze in Tamil

உருக்கிணைப்பு, பற்றாசிணைப்பு, பித்தளைபோல நிறமுண்டாக்கு, பித்தளை வண்ணம் செய், பொடியிட்டுவிளக்குதல், வன்பற்றாசுவைத்துவிளக்கல்

Forms of braze

Verb
third-person singular presentbrazes
present participlebrazing
past participlebrazed
pastbrazed
alternative formbraise
alternative formbraize
Noun
pluralbrazes

Origin of braze

From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).

1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.

Words formed from braze

Words that rhyme with braze

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Questions about braze

What does braze mean?
Braze means to cover with brass, or as with brass.
What is braze in Tamil?
Braze in Tamil is உருக்கிணைப்பு, பற்றாசிணைப்பு, பித்தளைபோல நிறமுண்டாக்கு. See Braze meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is braze?
Braze can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce braze?
Braze is pronounced /bɹeɪz/.
What is the past tense of braze?
The past tense of braze is brazed.

Words near braze in the dictionary

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  2. Brayton cycles
  3. Braz
  4. Braz.
  5. braza
  6. braze
  7. Brazeal
  8. Brazeals
  9. Brazeau
  10. Brazeau County
  11. Brazeaus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: braze (page history and authors); braze (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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