bream

Pluralbream, breams

Formsbreams, breaming, breamed

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A freshwater fish from European rivers and lakes, not often eaten.

   The angler pulled a fat bream from the slow river water.

   Bream gather in deep, calm pools where the current slows down.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A sea fish caught off many coasts and often cooked as food.

   The chef grilled a whole bream with lemon and fresh herbs.

   Fishermen netted dozens of bream along the rocky coastline.

3. 3
   nounBritishcountable

   One common kind of European freshwater bream, Abramis brama.

   He netted a bronze-flanked bream from the still canal water.

   On the River Trent, anglers weigh in heavy nets of bream.

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A North American freshwater fish, also called a sunfish, that lives in ponds and lakes.

   She hooked a small bream while fishing the edge of the pond.

   Warm Southern ponds are full of bream and bass.

   Similarsunfish, pondfish

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5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To clean the bottom of a ship by burning off and scraping away seaweed and shells.

   Like burning and scraping old paint off a wall before you paint it again.

   The crew had to bream the boat before the long trip downriver.

   We will bream the hull once the tide goes out.

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