verbrämen

== German == === Etymology === 15th century, from ver- +‎ brämen (now obsolete), from Middle High German bremen (“to provide with a trimming”), derived from *brem (“trimming, edging”, attested 15th c., see Bräme). The noun is cognate with English brim. The ä-spelling reflects the Middle High German open ë-vowel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /feʁˈbʁɛːmən/, [fɐˈbʁɛː.mən], [fɛɐ̯-], [-ˈbʁeː-], [-mn̩], [-mm̩] Hyphenation: ver‧brä‧men === Verb === verbrämen (weak, third-person singular present verbrämt, past tense verbrämte, past participle verbrämt, auxiliary haben) to embellish (a piece of clothing), especially with a trimming, edging, brim (figurative) to mask, veil, cloud, sugarcoat (euphemize something negative, especially by making it vague) Synonyms: verschleiern, verhüllen, bemänteln, beschönigen, kaschieren, verharmlosen (rare, by extension) to misname, to describe with inappropriate terms (be they positive or negative) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Verbrämen Verbrämung === Further reading === “verbrämen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[3] (in German) “verbrämen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “verbrämen” in Duden online