Raved vs Braved - What's the difference?
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(rave)
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. § 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
(brave)
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:
*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.
(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Making a fine show or display.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
* (1558-1592)
*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
*
*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A Native American warrior.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
* Dryden
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
* Shakespeare
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2
(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between raved and braved
is that raved is (rave) while braved is (brave).raved
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(head)Anagrams
*rave
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)
See also
* rantEtymology 2
English dialect raves, or .Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----braved
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(head)Anagrams
*brave
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See alsoAntonyms
* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weakNoun
(en noun)- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .
Verb
- These I can brave , but those I can not bear.
- but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.