Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to brain
Participle: brained
Gerund: braining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | brain |
| you | brain |
| he;she;it | brains |
| we | brain |
| you | brain |
| they | brain |
Perfect
| I | have brained |
| you | have brained |
| he;she;it | has brained |
| we | have brained |
| you | have brained |
| they | have brained |
Past
| I | brained |
| you | brained |
| he;she;it | brained |
| we | brained |
| you | brained |
| they | brained |
Pluperfect
| I | had brained |
| you | had brained |
| he;she;it | had brained |
| we | had brained |
| you | had brained |
| they | had brained |
Future
| I | will brain |
| you | will brain |
| he;she;it | will brain |
| we | will brain |
| you | will brain |
| they | will brain |
Future Perfect
| I | will have brained |
| you | will have brained |
| he;she;it | will have brained |
| we | will have brained |
| you | will have brained |
| they | will have brained |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | brain |
| you | brain |
| he;she;it | brain |
| we | brain |
| you | brain |
| they | brain |
Perfect
| I | have brained |
| you | have brained |
| he;she;it | have brained |
| we | have brained |
| you | have brained |
| they | have brained |
Imperfect
| I | brained |
| you | brained |
| he;she;it | brained |
| we | brained |
| you | brained |
| they | brained |
Pluperfect
| I | had brained |
| you | had brained |
| he;she;it | had brained |
| we | had brained |
| you | had brained |
| they | had brained |
Conditional
Present
| I | would brain |
| you | would brain |
| he;she;it | would brain |
| we | would brain |
| you | would brain |
| they | would brain |
Perfect
| I | would have brained |
| you | would have brained |
| he;she;it | would have brained |
| we | would have brained |
| you | would have brained |
| they | would have brained |
Imperative
| you | brain |
| we | Let's brain |
| you | brain |
Verbs conjugated like 'brain'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'brain'
berain,
braid,
brail,
brawn,
drain,
grain,
rain,
train,
abraid,
amain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s
5. Proto-Germanic *bragną
6. Proto-West Germanic *bragn
7. Old English bræġn
8. Middle English brayn
9. English brain
10. Inherited from Middle English brayn, from Old English bræġn, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną, from Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s, from *mregʰ- + *-n̥.
11. Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'Brainge', Low Saxon 'Brägen', German, old spelling '
Bregen'.
Sample Sentences
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Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp. [2014, K.J. Charles, Think of England, page 166:]
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There thou maiſt braine him, [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:]
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It was the ſwift celeritie of his death / […] That brain'd my purpoſe: [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 82, column 2:]
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He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 21, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not. [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:]
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My brain isn't braining right now.