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Grammar : Verb
Spell : bran-did
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbræn dɪd


Définition of branded

Origin :
  • 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.
  • verb label negatively
Example sentences :
  • This fellow, who had offered to take money for a guest, was damned for life and branded.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • It demanded that she be the criminal it had branded her—if she were to live at all.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Had he not been branded with a mark which for ever condemned him to dwell apart?
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • He would be spotted, branded with the sign of infamy, hunted from the world!
  • Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
  • You have caused me to be branded as a thief for taking—at your suggestion—that which was and still is my own!'
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • But the bite Camille had given him stung as if his skin had been branded with a red-hot iron.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • This routine had been drilled into them, branded into their subconscious.
  • Extract from : « The Hour of Battle » by Robert Sheckley
  • "Made in Ireland for English gabies" should be branded upon them.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • "It must have been a bunch of strays we saw—none of them was branded," Lambert said.
  • Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
  • You know, of course, that you are branded with your own device?
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang

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