Usually means: Introduce a sensitive topic carefully.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. broach: Merriam-Webster
  2. broach, broach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. broach, broach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. broach: Collins English Dictionary
  5. broach: Vocabulary.com
  6. Broach, broach: Wordnik
  7. broach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Broach, broach: Wiktionary
  9. broach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. broach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. broach: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. broach: Dictionary.com
  13. broach (n.), broach (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. broach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Broach (metalwork), Broach (metalworking), Broach (sailing), Broach: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Broach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. broach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. broach: Rhymezone
  19. broach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. broach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Broach: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. broach: FreeDictionary.org
  23. broach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. broach: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. broach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. broach: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Broach (metalwork), broach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. broach: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. broach: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BROACH: Acronym Finder
  3. broach: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broach: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Broach: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
noun:  (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
noun:  A spit for cooking food.
noun:  An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
noun:  (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
noun:  A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
noun:  The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
noun:  The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
verb:  (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
verb:  (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
verb:  (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative spelling of brooch [A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.]
noun:  Obsolete form of Bharuch. [A city and district at the mouth of the Narmada River in Gujarat, India.]

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