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Brained

Brained \Brained\, p. a. Supplied with brains.

If th' other two be brained like us.
--Shak.

Brained

Brain \Brain\ (br[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brained (br[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Braining.]

  1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

    There thou mayst brain him.
    --Shak.

    It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose.
    --Shak.

  2. To conceive; to understand. [Obs.]

    'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not.
    --Shak.

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brained
  1. Having a particular kind or brain, as described by the word with which this term is combined, usually figuratively. v

  2. (en-past of: brain)

Usage examples of "brained".

A patch the size of a monk's tonsure had been shaved around the slash that guy in the miniskirt and fishnet hose had made when he brained her with a handy beer bottle.

I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug‑that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams.