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braze¹

  • /bɹeɪz/

Sounds like braise · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).

verb brazes · brazing · brazed

  1. transitive To cover with brass, or as with brass.

braze²

  • /bɹeɪz/

Sounds like braise · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.

verb brazes · brazing · brazed · braise · braize

  1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
  2. obsolete To burn or temper in fire.

noun brazes · braise · braize

  1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.

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verb The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness

Españolsoldar fuertemente / al fuerte
Portuguêsbrasar
Françaisbraser
Ελληνικάχαλκοκολλώ chalkokolló
Русскийприпаивать pripaivatʹ, спаивать spaivatʹ

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@misc{braze_2026,
  title = {braze},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/braze},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}