Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
Making a fine show or display.
Foolish or unwise.
After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
Lacking a backbone; without vertebrae.
A spineless person; a coward.
An animal without vertebrae, i.e. backbone.