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Definition of brayed : of Bray

Synonyms:

cried, purred, chattered, cawed, mooed, bawled, grunted, chirped, growled, howled, ululated, quacked, squawked, cooed, gobbled, crowed, squealed, clucked, warbled, snorted, neighed, yelped, called, cackled, bleated, roared, mewed, bellowed, whinnied, cuckooed, barked, snarled, honked, meowed, hooted, trilled, bayed

Usage examples:

• A donkey in an ammunition waggon brayed vociferously, and a dozen men, fearful lest the enemy should hear the noise, sprang upon him with clubs and whips, and even attempted to close his mouth by force of hands. - "With the Boer Forces", Howard C. Hillegas.
• Therefore my counsel to you, Cheat, is to make haste to die or to find courage to fall upon a spear, unless you would learn how it feels to be brayed with sticks like a green hide until none can know that you were once a man. - "Child of Storm", H. Rider Haggard.
• At night the band brayed in the empty- looking ball- room, and a few very young couples danced, in a desultory fashion and without any ceremony. - "Louisiana", Frances Hodgson Burnett.