brand
/ˈbɹænd/ verbo C1En español: tildar, tachar
- To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound. · When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
- To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership. · The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
- To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses. · Her face is branded upon my memory.
- To stigmatize, label (someone). · He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
- To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images. · They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
- To be very hot, to burn.
He/she/it brands · Pasado branded · Participio pasado branded · Forma en -ing branding
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I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron’s heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.”
The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one’s best chum would have forever and ever branded as “awful mean” the girl who did it.
I assure you, Marilla, that I feel like praying tonight and I’m going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion.”
To the immense relief of all the girls, and especially of Josie Pye, who, in spite of lack of imagination, had been seized with horrible visions of a future branded as the girl who was the cause of Anne Shirley’s early and tragic death, Anne sat dizzily up and answered uncertainly:
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