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brey

brey verb: to soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.

Verb

brey (third-person singular simple present breys, present participle breying, simple past and past participle breyed)

  1. (South Africa, transitive) To soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.

Proper noun capitalized: Brey

Brey (plural Breys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of brey

Verb
third-person singular presentbreys
present participlebreying
past participlebreyed
pastbreyed
Proper noun
pluralBreys

Words formed from brey

Questions about brey

What does brey mean?
Brey means to soften (leather) by twisting, scraping, etc.
What part of speech is brey?
Brey can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of brey?
The past tense of brey is breyed.

Words near brey in the dictionary

  1. Brexity
  2. Brexocalypse
  3. Brexodus
  4. brexpiprazole
  5. Brexshit
  6. brey
  7. breyde
  8. Breydon Water
  9. breyed
  10. Breyer
  11. Breyers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brey (page history and authors); Brey (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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