brave
verb/breɪv/
/breɪv/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they brave | /breɪv/ /breɪv/ |
| he / she / it braves | /breɪvz/ /breɪvz/ |
| past simple braved | /breɪvd/ /breɪvd/ |
| past participle braved | /breɪvd/ /breɪvd/ |
| -ing form braving | /ˈbreɪvɪŋ/ /ˈbreɪvɪŋ/ |
- brave somebody/something to have to deal with somebody/something difficult or unpleasant in order to achieve something
- He did not feel up to braving the journalists at the airport.
- Over a thousand people braved the elements (= went outside in spite of the bad weather) to attend the march.
- The firefighters braved the flames to rescue the family.
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’.
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