Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I.

Brisk, a. Active, lively, smart, agile, nimble, quick, smart, alert, spry, spirited, vivacious, sprightly.

Brittle, a. Fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, frangible, brash, easily broken (into pieces), easily shivered.

Britzska, n. Brett.

Broach, v. a. 1. Pierce, tap.

2. Utter, publish, proclaim, give out.

Broached, a. Tapped, abroach, on tap.

Broad, a. 1. Wide.

2. Large, ample, extensive, expanded, extended, vast.

3. Spread, diffused, open.

4. Gross, coarse, indelicate, vulgar, obscene.

Broaden, v. a. Widen, make broad.

Broadside, n. 1. Cannonade (from all the guns on the side of a ship).

2. Placard, bill, poster, hand-bill.

Brochure, n. [Fr.] Pamphlet.

Broil, n. Affray, fray, quarrel, contention, feud, brawl.

Broken, a. 1. Shattered, rent, severed, separated.

2. Weakened, impaired, feeble, shaken, spent, wasted, exhausted.

3. Abrupt, craggy, steep, precipitous, rough.

Broken-hearted, a. Disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless, cheerless, sad, sorrowful, melancholy, woebegone, forlorn, undone, heart-broken, in despair.

Broker, n. Factor, agent, middleman, go-between.

Brood, v. n. Incubate.

Brood, n. Offspring, progeny, issue.

Brood over, Think long and anxiously about.

Brook, n. Rivulet, streamlet, run, runnel, runlet, rill, burn, small stream.

Brook, v. a. Endure, bear, abide, tolerate, suffer, put up with, submit to, bear with, take patiently or easily.

Broom, n. Besom.

Broth, n. Soup (in which meat has been macerated).

Brothel, n. Bagnio, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.

Brotherhood, n. 1. Relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers).

2. Fraternity, association, sodality, society, clique, coterie, clan, junto.

Brotherly, a. Fraternal, affectionate, kind, amicable, friendly, cordial.

Brow, n. 1. Forehead.

2. Edge (as of a precipice), brink, border.

Browbeat, v. a. Bully, overbear, treat insolently.

Brown study, Reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, absence, absence of mind.

Browse, n. Tender twigs of shrubs and trees.

Browse, v. a. Nibble, crop, feed upon.

Browse, v. n. 1. Feed on browse.

2. [Colloquial.] Live precariously.

Bruin, n. [Colloquial.] Bear.

Bruise, v. a. 1. Crush, squeeze, contuse.

2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.

Bruise, n. Contusion.

Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.

Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze or spread abroad.

Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.

Brush, n. 1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.

2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.

Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.

Brusque, a. [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.

Brutal, a. 1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.

2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, brusque, ungentlemanly.

3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.

Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.

Brute, n. 1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.

2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.

Brute, a. 1. Irrational, void of reason.

2. Bestial, savage, barbarous, brutal.

3. Rough, rude, uncivilized.

Brutish, a. 1. Brutal.

2. Irrational, brute.

3. Stupid, dull, insensible.

4. Gross, carnal, sensual, bestial, beastly.

Brutum fulmen, [L.] Harmless thunderbolt, loud but harmless threatening, empty sound.

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