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brazens

brazens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brazen.

Meaning of brazen

Verb

brazen (third-person singular simple present brazens, present participle brazening, simple past and past participle brazened)

  1. (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
    • [...] the meadows roughen, grow gutteral / with goldenrod, milkweed's late-summer lilac, / cat-tails, the wild lily brazening, / dooryards overflowing in late, rough-headed bloom: [...]1986, Quarterly Journal of Ideology: QJI, volume 10, [Tahlequah, Okla.]: QJI Editorial Board, →ISSN, page 93
  2. (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.
    • And though the word doth eat up all they can ſay, as Moſes rod did: yet they harden their hearts with Pharaoh, they brazen their brows with him in the text, that ſaid I will not: Nay ſaid the Iſraelites, but we will have a King. [Commentary on Matthew 21:29.]1656, John Trapp, “A Commentary or Exposition upon the Gospel According to St. Matthew”, in A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the New Testament. […], 2nd enlarged edition, London...

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What is brazens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brazens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brazen.

Words near brazens in the dictionary

  1. brazenly
  2. brazenness
  3. brazennesses
  4. brazenries
  5. brazenry
  6. brazens
  7. brazens out
  8. brazer
  9. brazers
  10. brazes
  11. Brazi

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