Branded
['brændɪd]
Definition
(adj.) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights; 'branded merchandise is that bearing a standard brand name' .
(adj.) marked with a brand; 'branded cattle'; 'branded criminal' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Brand
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Examples
- For years his name was branded on every Bell telephone set, and his patents were a mainstay of what has been popularly called the Bell monopoly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Alas, my character is ruined, and I am a branded speaker of untruths! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And now--and now I am myself a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I sold my character. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A man who has this mark, branded in this place, he said, covering his arm again, is a member of the Brotherhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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