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branded

[bran-did]
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adjective
  1. marked with a branding iron to show ownership: branded cattle.
  2. Commerce. carrying the brand or trademark of a manufacturer: branded merchandise.
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Origin of branded

First recorded in 1645–55; brand + -ed3
Related formsnon·brand·ed, adjectivewell-brand·ed, adjective

brand

[brand]
noun
  1. kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like: the best brand of coffee.
  2. a mark made by burning or otherwise, to indicate kind, grade, make, ownership, etc.
  3. a mark formerly put upon criminals with a hot iron.
  4. any mark of disgrace; stigma.
  5. branding iron.
  6. a kind or variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic: The movie was filled with slapstick—a brand of humor he did not find funny.
  7. a burning or partly burned piece of wood.
  8. Archaic. a sword.
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verb (used with object)
  1. to label or mark with or as if with a brand.
  2. to mark with disgrace or infamy; stigmatize.
  3. to impress indelibly: The plane crash was branded on her mind.
  4. to give a brand name to: branded merchandise.
  5. to promote as a brand name.
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Origin of brand

before 950; Middle English, Old English: burning, a burning piece of wood, torch, sword; cognate with Dutch brand, German Brand, Old Norse brandr; akin to burn1
Related formsbrand·er, nounbrand·less, adjectivenon·brand, adjectivere·brand, verb (used with object)

Synonyms

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4. stain, spot, blot, taint.
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Examples from the Web for branded

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  • This fellow, who had offered to take money for a guest, was damned for life and branded.

  • It demanded that she be the criminal it had branded her—if she were to live at all.

    Within the Law

    Marvin Dana

  • Had he not been branded with a mark which for ever condemned him to dwell apart?

  • He would be spotted, branded with the sign of infamy, hunted from the world!

  • You have caused me to be branded as a thief for taking—at your suggestion—that which was and still is my own!'

    Wilfrid Cumbermede

    George MacDonald

British Dictionary definitions for branded

branded

adjective
  1. identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
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Brand

noun
  1. Russell, born 1975, English comedian and television presenter
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brand

noun
  1. a particular product or a characteristic that serves to identify a particular product
  2. a trade name or trademark
  3. a particular kind or varietyhe had his own brand of humour
  4. an identifying mark made, usually by burning, on the skin of animals or (formerly) slaves or criminals, esp as a proof of ownership
  5. an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  6. a mark of disgrace or infamy; stigmahe bore the brand of a coward
  7. a burning or burnt piece of wood, as in a fire
  8. archaic, or poetic
    1. a flaming torch
    2. a sword
  9. a fungal disease of garden plants characterized by brown spots on the leaves, caused by the rust fungus Puccinia arenariae
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verb (tr)
  1. to label, burn, or mark with or as with a brand
  2. to place indelibly in the memorythe scene of slaughter was branded in their minds
  3. to denounce; stigmatizethey branded him a traitor
  4. to give a product a distinctive identity by means of characteristic design, packaging, etc
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Derived Formsbranding, nounbrander, noun

Word Origin

Old English brand-, related to Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant; see burn 1
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Word Origin and History for branded

brand

n.

Old English brand, brond "fire, flame; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch," and (poetic) "sword," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (cf. Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant, Old Frisian brond "firebrand, blade of a sword," German brand "fire"), from root *bran-/*bren- (see burn (v.)). Meaning "identifying mark made by a hot iron" (1550s) broadened by 1827 to "a particular make of goods." Brand name is from 1922.

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brand

v.

c.1400, "to brand, cauterize; stigmatize," originally of criminal marks or cauterized wounds, from brand (n.). As a means of marking property, 1580s; figuratively from c.1600, often in a bad sense, with the criminal marking in mind. Related: Branded; branding.

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