Braven

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become brave ambitransitive

    "But the courage of those boys was marvellous and unfailing, and the veteran soldiers who bravened them, the men who had returned with healed wounds or, had, by some miracle, passed unscathed through many battles, said, “Well done, kids!” and could not praise them enough."

Example

More examples

"But the courage of those boys was marvellous and unfailing, and the veteran soldiers who bravened them, the men who had returned with healed wounds or, had, by some miracle, passed unscathed through many battles, said, “Well done, kids!” and could not praise them enough."

Etymology

From brave + -en.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.