A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
"I guess that was nigh braining the child," quoth Miss Amanda, with the greatest coolness, and without making the least apology.
From Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
