braid
verb/breɪd/
/breɪd/
(especially North American English) (British English usually plait)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they braid | /breɪd/ /breɪd/ |
| he / she / it braids | /breɪdz/ /breɪdz/ |
| past simple braided | /ˈbreɪdɪd/ /ˈbreɪdɪd/ |
| past participle braided | /ˈbreɪdɪd/ /ˈbreɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form braiding | /ˈbreɪdɪŋ/ /ˈbreɪdɪŋ/ |
- braid something (especially North American English) to twist three or more long pieces of hair, rope, etc. together to make one long piece
- She'd braided her hair.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBraid is used with these nouns as the object:- hair
Word OriginOld English bregdan ‘make a sudden movement’, also ‘interweave’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch breien (verb).Definitions on the go
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