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BRAZEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or propriety
Example:
the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
Synonyms:
audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent
Classified under:
Similar:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
Derivation:
brazenness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
brass (an alloy of copper and zinc)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they brazen ... he / she / it brazens
Past simple: brazened
Past participle: brazened
-ing form: brazening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Face with defiance or impudence
Example:
brazen it out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "brazen" is one way to...):
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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