broaching

柯林斯詞典

broach /br??t?/ (broaching,broached,broaches)

• 1. V-T When you broach a subject, especially a sensitive one, you mention it in order to start a discussion on it. 提出

  Eventually I broached the subject of her early life. 最後我提出她早年生活的話題。

• 2. V to cause (a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously or (of a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously in a following sea, so as to be broadside to the waves 使(帆船)突然劇烈轉(zhuǎn)曏[nautical]

• 3. N a long tapered toothed cutting tool for enlarging holes 擴(kuò)孔機(jī)

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