; brittle, crisp, fragile.

brass, n. (Colloq.) impudence, insolence, temerity, effrontery,
audacity.

brass worker. brasier, brazier.

brassy, a. brazen; (Colloq.) bold, impudent, forward.

bravado, n. brag; blustering, threat.

brave, a. intrepid, courageous, valiant, daring, bold, valorous,
chivalrous, fearless, adventurous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, heroic,
mettlesome, undaunted, venturesome, lion-hearted, manly, unafraid, plucky;
showy, effective, striking. Antonyms: craven, timorous, cowardly,
recreant, pusillanimous. See cowardly.

brave, v. defy, dare, beard.

bravery, n. intrepidity, courage, heroism, valor, prowess, hardihood,
mettle, pluck, fearlessness, boldness. Antonyms: cowardice, timidity,
recreancy, poltroonery, flinch.

brawl, n. quarrel (noisy), dispute, melee, broil, rumpus, uproar.

brawling, a. clamorous, disputatious, noisy, quarrelsome, jangling.

brawny, a. stalwart, muscular, sinewy, robust, strong.

brazen-faced, a. impudent, shameless, pert, immodest.

breach, n. breaking, rupture; infraction, violation, trespass,
nonobservance; hernia, rupture; falling out, alienation, disaffection,
variance, difference; separation, ruption, disruption.

bread, n. Associated Words: panification, panary, panivorous,
crouton, zwiebach, panade, sop, crumb, crust, brewis, sippet, dough,
knead, leaven.

bread-basket, n. pannier.

breadth, n. width, latitude; liberality, tolerance, catholicity.

break, v. fracture, dispart, sever, rend, smash, shatter, shiver,
splinter, batter, burst, rupture, crack; infringe, violate, disobey,
transgress, trespass; communicate, disclose, divulge, tell, impart,
broach; discipline, tame; bankrupt, impoverish, ruin.

break, n. breach, rupture, fracture, fissure crack, chasm, gap, rent,
rift, hiatus, caesura, interstice.

breakdown, n. downfall, collapse, crash.

breaking, n. fracture, rupture; breach, infraction, violation.
Associated Words: brittle, frangible, frangibility, tenacious, tenacity,
inviolable, inviolability.

breaking out. eruption, rash, efflorescence, exanthema; paroxysm.

breaking out again. recrudescence.

breakup, n. disruption, disorganization.

breakwater, n. jetty, pier, mole, dike.

breast, n. chest, bosom, thorax; teat, pap, dug, mamma. Associated
words: amasty, pectoral, plastron, bib, gorget, mammillary, angina
pectoris, areola, pectoriloquy, diaphragm, sternal.

breast, v. stem, struggle with, withstand, resist.

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