(~r, ~st, ~s, braving, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Someone who is ~ is willing to do things which are dangerous, and does not show fear in difficult or dangerous situations.
He was not ~ enough to report the loss of the documents.
...those ~ people who dared to challenge the Stalinist regimes.
= courageous
? cowardly
ADJ
~ly
Mr Kim ~ly stood up to authority.
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
2.
If you ~ unpleasant or dangerous conditions, you deliberately expose yourself to them, usually in order to achieve something. (WRITTEN)
Thousands have ~d icy rain to demonstrate their support.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone is putting on a ~ face or is putting a ~ face on a difficult situation, they are pretending that they are happy or satisfied when they are not.
He felt disappointed but he tried to put on a ~ face...
PHRASE: V inflects