bream

1. 1.

   clean (a ship's bottom) with heat

   Broaderclean

Other forms of bream

plural

breams·

past tense

breamed·

present participle

breaming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bream

What does bream mean?

bream means "flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bream?

bream has 1 syllable: bream. In IPA it is /ˈbɹim/.

What is another word for bream?

Close synonyms include freshwater bream, sea bream, sea bream, freshwater bream. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bream a common word?

bream is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.