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# bray

«bray» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make the loud, harsh noise of a donkey (hee-haw)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bray, brays, brayed, braying); noun (a bray, brays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make the loud, harsh noise of a donkey (hee-haw). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#m1)

2) (of people) To laugh or talk loudly and unpleasantly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#m2)

3) (noun) The sound a donkey makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#m3)

4) To cry out in a loud, harsh voice, especially in pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and farm topics, donkeys bray. In descriptions, a braying laugh is loud and annoying. In nativity and Bible stories, a donkey may bray in the stable. Phrases: donkey's bray, braying laugh.

### examples

- The donkey brayed loudly at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x1)
- We heard a loud bray from the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x2)
- The man's braying laugh filled the café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x3)
- Hee-haw is how we write a donkey's bray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x4)
- The donkey brayed when it wanted its dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x5)
- A trumpet in the band brayed out of tune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x6)
- Pinocchio screamed with pain and as he screamed he brayed: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: brayed. Bray is also a seaside town in Ireland (a name).

### In the corpora

- [Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/14/)
- [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/)
- [Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.122/)
- [Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.755/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bray» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bray/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.