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n. process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal

v. Present participle of brand.

n. the act of stigmatizing

"I admit that the term branding suggests something other than what happened, my first image was of some sort of cross shaped device that burned the image into the skin."

branded    branding    brands   

marker    mark    marking    label    call    tag    sort    form    kind    variety   

sword    blight    sugar-cane brand    bladder-brand    global advertising    advertising    copy testing    advertising research   

brand new    rebrand   

branded    branding   

kind    grade    stigma   

Grande    Hand    Land    Marchand    Rand    Sand    Strand    and    band    banned   

product    manufacturer    quality    sale    store    stock    firm    customer    technology    version