brine
Plural: brines
Noun
- water containing salts
- a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
- Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
- The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Verb
- soak in brine
- To preserve food in a salt solution.
- To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
- BRINED, BRINING, BRINES to treat with brine (salted water)
Examples
- "Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?"
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”).
Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”).
Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).
Antonyms
fresh water, debrine, desalinate
Scrabble Score: 7
brine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbrine: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary