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
It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.
From Prester John by John Buchan
