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broach
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broach as in:  broached the subject

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  • Yet neither of them broached the subject of what was going to happen to their relationship in the future.  (source)
    broached = brought up a topic for discussion - especially an awkward topic
  • Janie acted glad to see her and after a while Pheoby broached her with, "Janie, everybody's talkin' 'bout how..."  (source)
  • I set out my best dishes, broached my oldest wine.†  (source)
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  • His father hadn't broached the issue of placing Edgar's litter and it wasn't something Edgar had been eager to hurry along.†  (source)
    broached = brought up a topic for discussion - especially an awkward topic
  • Each time left her wanting, but she didn't have the faintest notion how to broach such a subject.†  (source)
  • Broaching all the topics between us took more courage than I possessed at the time, and so I didn't broach them, and so I think it was then that a new formal relationship began for us, and that was when we started to work out what to do with each other and our situation according to our notions of duty and loyalty, and after a while it got to be clear how very much we differed in these notions.†  (source)
  • The faster your lifeboat broaches to the waves, the better.†  (source)
  • Then the Gerenian warrior old, before His sons and sons in law, to his abode Magnificent proceeded: they (arrived Within the splendid palace of the King) 490 On thrones and couches sat in order ranged, Whom Nestor welcom'd, charging high the cup With wine of richest sort, which she who kept That treasure, now in the eleventh year First broach'd, unsealing the delicious juice.†  (source)
  • "Broacher round," the engineering technician wailed.†  (source)
  • And even if she is unbroached as yet, I'll wager she's a mother in another twelvemonth.†  (source)
    unbroached = not brought up for discussion
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbroached means not and reverses the meaning of broached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • And having thus broached the subject, the Count went on to applaud the couplets of Pushkin, the paragraphs of Dostoevsky, and the transcriptions of Socrates and Jesus.†  (source)
    broached = brought up a topic for discussion - especially an awkward topic
  • I had come up with a plan and had been waiting for the opportunity to broach it to Mom.†  (source)
  • Chacko said, finally broaching the real reason for his visit.†  (source)
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