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- verb Present participle of
brain .
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Examples
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In particular, it's interesting to see the emphasis on the electrification of speech and "braining" in Chinese, versus that of distance in "telephone" (which is itself related to telegraphy, technically, syntactically, and semantically) and numeric calculation (and practitioners thereof) for "computer".
Word meaning as a window into thought josh 2008
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Big Brains: I've heard about this before but never heard it called "braining" Heard it ...
Citizen of the Month 2009
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Can it really be called "braining" if there are, in fact, no brains inside the skull to spill?
Balloon Juice 2009
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My brain is not braining, and my body's not up to snuff either.
PSA 2009
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"Don't you come any closer," one warned him, flourishing his club with the advertisement of braining him.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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What can we expect from this fabulous, braining, independent woman in the next 5 years?
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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What can we expect from this fabulous, braining, independent woman in the next 5 years?
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That one minute, we are waving flags and singing the praises of living in a diverse community and the next, braining people over the heads with flag poles while justifying a fear of those who are different with the least shred of shame.
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That one minute, we are waving flags and singing the praises of living in a diverse community and the next, braining people over the heads with flag poles while justifying a fear of those who are different with the least shred of shame.
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Troops here told me of shepherd boys scowling their way around Bagram's outskirts, slingshotting off the occasional rock in hopes of braining an American.
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