noun
definition
A Native American warrior.
definition
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
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A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
verb
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To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
example
After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
definition
To adorn; to make fine or showy.
adjective
Examples of brave in a Sentence
He was brave now that he faced only a woman.
You're brave and strong.
Her eyes watered at his brave words, and she hugged him.
If you're brave enough, you can see him when he's back.
Please tell the brave sailors, who have charge of the HELEN KELLER, that little Helen who stays at home will often think of them with loving thoughts.
Standing with his brave Angel, he couldn't think of a reason he'd want to leave her side.
I hope she will be very faithful, and brave, too.
You are certainly brave foes.
All climates agree with brave Chanticleer.
From this you will see that you have a perfect right to reassure the inhabitants of Smolensk, for those defended by two such brave armies may feel assured of victory.
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
I've yet to meet someone as brave in the face of death as you are.
It was brave talk.
They are repulsed everywhere, for which I thank God and our brave army!
Not so brave without those bars between us, are you, Lunchmeat?
Among the watchers at Charlestown was a brave young man named Paul Revere.
Not so brave anymore, are you, little girl.
He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and magnanimous.
He was a brave soldier and a wise teacher.
After the affair at Ostrovna he was brought into notice, received command of an hussar battalion, and when a brave officer was needed he was chosen.
He is a brave boy.
I will tell you another story of the same brave and famous king.
It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile!
He's a brave fellow.
That's such a brave thing for a mother to do.
You've gotten brave, love.
Ully cursed as he moved to seek cover from the downpour. Safe beneath his jungle roof, Toby watched him. The brave, cheerful Ully that sat with him in Hell seemed lost in the underworld, and Toby began to suspect there was another reason their jailer, Jared, had freed them.
They would fight for her until their deaths, each of them as brave as the members of her guard.
It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.
You're brave, but you're terrified as well.
He'd found out his Angel was not only bright, but brave and beautiful.
The son and successor of Agesilaus II., reigned 360-338 B.C. During his father's later years he proved himself a brave and capable officer.
The Persians of Cyrus were a vigorous race of husbandmen, living in a healthy climate, accustomed to hardship, brave and upright.
The wish was gratified at the risk of the lives of three brave men, and he recognized the solemnity of the occasion by pouring out the water as an offering unto Yahweh.
But never mind; be brave, my friends, and I will go and tell our masters where you are, and get them to come to your rescue.
Brave men left their homes and hurried toward Boston.
Be always brave and truthful, said his father.
He was very brave.
Nishani was brave with me.
Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been brave and noble men.
You were very brave, and it is lucky that the wolf was not there.
The people of Connecticut still remember Abraham Davenport, because he was a wise judge and a brave lawmaker.
Whatever Bogdanich may be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel!
She summoned up a brave smile.
Though some skeptics smiled when told of Berg's merits, it could not be denied that he was a painstaking and brave officer, on excellent terms with his superiors, and a moral young man with a brilliant career before him and an assured position in society.
Oh, my brave, kind friends, and he leaned his head against the shoulder of one of the men like a child.
She used to talk of Annie all the time, tell us how brave her sister was, how she and the Reverend administered to the sick, and those women.
Apotheosis can mean nothing to those who hold that a man may be reborn as a god, but still needs redemption, and that men on earth may win redemption, if they are brave enough.
Young, brave and handsome, he won the love and devotion of his people, and guided them through the long years of storm and stress with wisdom and ability.
But Charles, though a brave soldier and good military organizer, was neither a capable statesman nor a skilful general.