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bra⋅zen

  [brey-zuhn]
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–adjective
1. shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
2. made of brass.
3. like brass, as in sound, color, or strength.
–verb (used with object)
4. to make brazen or bold.
—Verb phrase
5. brazen out or through, to face boldly or shamelessly: He prefers to brazen it out rather than admit defeat.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME brasen (adj.), OE bræsen of brass

Related forms:
bra⋅zen⋅ly, adverb
bra⋅zen⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1, 3. brassy. 1. insolent, defiant. See bold.
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bra·zen   (brā'zən)   
adj.  
  1. Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. See Synonyms at shameless.
  2. Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound: "sudden brazen clashes of the soldiers' band" (James Joyce).
  3. Made of brass.
  4. Resembling brass, as in color or strength.
tr.v.   bra·zened, bra·zen·ing, bra·zens
To face or undergo with bold self-assurance: brazened out the crisis.

[Middle English brasen, made of brass, from Old English bræsen, from bræs, brass.]
bra'zen·ly adv., bra'zen·ness n.
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Brazen

Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See Brass.]

1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.

Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under Bronze.

Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.

Brazen

Bra"zen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brazened; p. pr. & vb. n. Brazening.] To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. --W. Black.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : brazen
Spanish: descarado, desvergonzado,
German: schamlos,
Japanese: 厚かましい
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brazen 
O.E. bræsen "made of brass," from bræs "brass." The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is c.1573 (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1555.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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