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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

What it means?????

May I know what is the meaning of "Brase"?. The letter e has an aposthrophe on top of it.

Please help. Thanks a lot.
  

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Can you give us the sentence you saw it in, or perhaps the context? "Brase" isn't a word I'm familiar with, but perhaps we can guess what word you meant with more context.

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  • Can you give us the sentence you saw it in, or perhaps the context?
  • "Brase" isn't a word I'm familiar with, but perhaps we can guess what word you meant with more context.
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Can you give us the sentence you saw it in, or perhaps the context?

"Brase" isn't a word I'm familiar with, but perhaps we can guess what word you meant with more context.
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Hi,

Your description of the e makes it sound like it has an acute accent, which suggests that the word is a French past participle.

The French verb braser meand 'to braze (metal)'. The English past participle of braze is brazen.

Obviously, some context would help us to avoid mak
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Do you mean 'blase'? My computer will not make the acute accent on top of the e. It's a French word which is in reasonably common usage, and it means casual, or unimpressed.
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Perhaps:

braze

Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s

 Etymology: probably from French braser, from Old French, to burn, from brese live coals, probably of non-Indo-European origin; akin to the source of Old Spanish brasa live coal, Old Italian bragia

 : to solder with an alloy (as
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