Definitions for brained

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Spelling: [breynd]

IPA: /breɪnd/

Brained is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 296 anagrams from letters in brained (abdeinr).

Definitions for brained

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
2. Zoology. (in many invertebrates) a part of the nervous system more or less corresponding to the brain of vertebrates.
3. Sometimes, brains. (used with a plural verb) understanding; intellectual power; intelligence.
4. the brain as the center of thought, understanding, etc.; mind; intellect.
5. brains, Slang. a member of a group who is regarded as its intellectual leader or planner:
6. Informal. a very intelligent or brilliant person.
7. Informal. the controlling or guiding mechanism in a computer, robot, pacemaker, etc. the part of a computer system for coordination or guidance, as of a missile.

Idioms

1. beat one's brains out, Informal. to try very hard to understand and work out a problem, remember something, etc.:
2. have something on the brain, to have an obsession; be occupied with:
3. pick someone's brains, to obtain information by questioning another person rather than by seeking it independently:

adjective

1. having a particular type of brain (used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to smash the skull of.
2. Slang. to hit or bang (someone) on the head.

Origin of brained

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at brain, -ed³

Examples for brained

I hated that keeper so't I could have brained him joyfully any minute.

"If knuckles could do it, I should have brained him, sir," said Robert.

The Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.

Children were torn from their mother's breast to be brained on the hearthstone.

He also took him from the crowd, and had him among his soldiers, and there he was brained.

Had I known what they would do for me in the future I think I should have brained them there and then.

I made a grab at her cap, and I thought she'd have brained me.

You may be sure I was inside in a moment, and I brained the savage with the butt of a pistol.

At last he ventured too near the walls, and was brained by a stone.

I brained him on the spot, and had him buried at my own expense.