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Is brain a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) Mind.Examples: "I have too much on my brain today."; "And I should tell him all my pain, / And how my life had droop’d of late, / And he should sorrow o’er my state / And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]"countableinformaluncountable
2. (in the plural) Intellect.Examples: ""We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines."; "She has a lot of brains."countablein-pluraluncountable
3. (informal) An intelligent person.Examples: "She was a total brain."; "Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks."Synonyms: brain, brain surgeon, brainbox, brainiac, deep thinker, Einstein, egghead, geniuscountableinformaluncountable
4. (informal) An intelligent person.Examples: "He is the brains behind the scheme."Synonyms: brain, brain surgeon, brainbox, brainiac, deep thinker, Einstein, egghead, geniuscountableinformalpluralplural-onlyuncountable
5. (informal) An intelligent person.Examples: "Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain."Synonyms: brain, brain surgeon, brainbox, brainiac, deep thinker, Einstein, egghead, geniuscountableinformalsingularuncountable
6. (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Oral sex.Examples: "Have you ever popped champagne on a plane, while gettin' some brain?"; "You said I got brain from your dame in the range / In the passing lane / But you really ain't got no proof"; "Got your nigga going / Going insane and so do I when he give me brain"slanguncountablevulgar
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.transitive
2. (transitive) To strike (someone) on the head.Examples: "Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp."transitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.Examples: "There thou maiſt braine him,"; "It was the ſwift celeritie of his death / […] That brain'd my purpoſe:"; "He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger."figurativelytransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To conceive in the mind; to understand.Examples: "'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not."obsoletetransitive
5. (intransitive, nonstandard, humorous) To think effectively.Examples: "My brain isn't braining right now."humorousintransitivenonstandard
Definition source: Wiktionary