brain
verb/breɪn/
/breɪn/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they brain | /breɪn/ /breɪn/ |
| he / she / it brains | /breɪnz/ /breɪnz/ |
| past simple brained | /breɪnd/ /breɪnd/ |
| past participle brained | /breɪnd/ /breɪnd/ |
| -ing form braining | /ˈbreɪnɪŋ/ /ˈbreɪnɪŋ/ |
- brain somebody/something/yourself to kill a person or an animal by hitting them very hard on the head
- I nearly brained myself on that low beam.
Word OriginOld English brægen, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch brein.
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