braining

verb

present participle of brain
as in cudgeling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braining
  1. spearing
  2. stabbing
  3. flailing
  4. lashing
  5. slashing
  6. whipping
  7. thrashing
  8. sapping
Verb
  • When staking dahlias in late summer, take care to avoid spearing the tubers.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026
  • There are frightening stories of swordfish charging boats, and even spearing their transoms and whacking propellers.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of spearing
Verb
  • The Baltimore Police Department says Abubakarr Barrie, 23, is accused of stabbing a 15-year-old girl inside a home.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Hank Sanders/Daily Southtown Paula Larson speaks to media May 6, 2024, about charges brought in the 1966 stabbing death of her mother, Karen Snider.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of stabbing
Verb
  • Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Intel comes off its steepest stock drop since the 1970s due to a worsening outlook for the PC market, the chipmaker is facing intensifying pressure to get its flailing foundry business off the ground.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
  • All of that would be bad enough if the Mamdani administration at least had a plan for turning around our flailing public school system.
    — Ciara Jackson, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of flailing
Verb
  • Most of the students were accused of minor offenses, like making threats, using cannabis vapes or lashing out at classmates or teachers, the analysis found.
    — Kristian Hernández, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.
    — Rosie Cima, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of lashing
Verb
  • Medicare could soon save beneficiaries over a billion dollars on prescription drugs — without slashing the price of a single medicine.
    — Ted Okon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Republican Scott Walker won that year, and over the next eight years enacted a wide array of Republican priorities that included drastically scaling back union rights, slashing taxes and requiring voters to show identification at the polls.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of slashing
Verb
  • In September 2022, Brandon Sanchez, a member of the show cast, documented a riding lesson in an email to management and HR, describing Garcia berating riders and whipping a Friesian horse for an extended period.
    — Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
  • By far, the easiest way to decongest my pores is whipping out one of the Elemis Dynamic Resurfacing Facial Pads and giving my T-zone a very proper run-through.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of whipping
Verb
  • The party is projected to win commanding majorities in the House and Senate after thrashing Republicans in key races up and down the ballot across the country.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Because this animal was thrashing wildly, Packard could sense he’d been picked up in error.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of thrashing
Verb
  • Partita takes a poem that vibrates with political energy and domesticates it, sapping this very famous verse of its revolutionary bite.
    — Sam Worley, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Stubbornly high inflation has been sapping consumer confidence and pressuring the Fed, which recently raised its benchmark interest rate in an effort to cool prices.
    — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of sapping
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