brine

1. 1.

   soak in brine

   Broaderdrench

   cooking

Other forms of brine

plural

brines·

past tense

brined·

present participle

brining·

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 brine

What does brine mean?

brine means "water containing salts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brine?

brine has 1 syllable: brine. In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪn/.

What is another word for brine?

Close synonyms include seawater, saltwater. 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 brine a common word?

brine 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.