OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11161

broach

/bɹəʊtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espitar
To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.
colacionar • plantear • sacar a colación • sacar a relucir • sacar el tema • traer a colación
To begin discussion about (something).
I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.