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intrepidity, intrepidness, pluck, determination, staunchness,
firmness, resoluteness, resolution, indomitability,
stalwartness, Colloq machismo: One has to admire the bravery of
a woman who supported suffrage in the early 1900s.
brawl n. 1 fight, mˆl‚e or melee, battle, battle royal, Donnybrook,
fray, wrangle, dispute, disorder, brannigan, fracas, row,
quarrel, squabble, Colloq punch-up, free-for-all, scrap, ruckus:
The police had to be brought in to break up the brawl.
--v. 2 fight, wrangle; row, quarrel, squabble, Colloq scrap:
The two brothers always seem to be brawling.
brawn n. muscle(s), strength, robustness, brawniness, might, power,
Colloq huskiness: It must take a lot of brawn to lift those
weights.
brawny adj. muscular, strong, tough, robust, mighty, powerful, burly,
strapping, beefy, hefty, bulky, Colloq husky: That brawny
fellow tossing the caber is my brother.
brazen adj. brassy, shameless, barefaced, brash, outspoken, forward,
immodest, unashamed, audacious, candid, open, unabashed,
brazen-faced; rude, impudent, impertinent, insolent, saucy,
Colloq cheeky, fresh, US sassy: That's the last time I'll let
that brazen hussy near my husband!
breach n. 1 break, violation, infraction, disobedience,
non-observance, infringement, contravention: Their failure to
comply with paragraph 3 is a clear breach of our contract. 2
break, rift, gulf, split, break-up, separation, rupture,
severance, schism, split, alienation, estrangement: There seems
to be no way to heal the breach between them. 3 gap, fissure,
crack, split, hole, opening; chasm: Their cannon opened a
breach in the castle wall.
--v. 4 rupture; break through, invade: The sea has breached
the dyke. Someone breached the security measures set up for the
missile design.
breadth n. 1 width, wideness, broadness, beam, span, spread, thickness:
The breadth of the cloth is 54in. 2 extent, magnitude, degree,
amount, scope, expanse, range, area, depth, detail: I like the