Synonyms of braying

braying

verb

present participle of bray

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles

bray the seeds using a mortar and pestle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grinding
• pounding
• crushing
• beating
• disintegrating
• powdering
• pulverizing
• milling
• grating
• crumbling
• atomizing
• smashing
• mulling
• comminuting
• shattering
• crunching
• fracturing
• breaking
• fragmenting
• dashing
• splintering
• kibbling
• busting
• micronizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of braying

Vanessa Bonet of the installation art group Dedo Vabo watched over a mission-control monitor deck, as the buzzing craft climbed into room full of braying hippos in rumpled suits. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026

The first of the three legs in an inaugural fundraiser called the Wagora Bike Ride unspools along rocky red clay roads and through rutted jeep tracks, past braying herds of zebra and startled warthogs. — Tom Vanderbilt, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026

The need to placate a braying mob of X posters desperate to see Lemon in chains does not constitute an emergency. — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026

Shortly after the New Year's ball drops (only once) in New York City, the Zohran Mamdani era will begin in the Big Apple and the political horses will be braying at the gates to start the 2026 midterm election season in earnest. — James Powel, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025

The cool, quiet spring air is punctuated only by Kasbah’s small pack of mules braying nearby, and the tinkling of the riad’s fountain. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025

As the insignias are cut off his uniform and his sword broken, Dreyfus (played by Louis Garrel) loudly declares his innocence, both to his brothers-in-arms and to the braying public outside the gates. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025