Verb (used with object) : to brave misfortunes.    From Dictionary.com. 

I come every year but this year seeing nearly 100,000 people from every country you can name braving the hottest Memphis Summer in 25 years was incredible.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Legends Gather #287 (x 20): Elvis Presley Memorial Edition] Reference

She's actually a displaced unhappy princess 'braving' the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [David & Dan confirm what we already know] Reference

She was very pale but half smiling, braving it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

"Yes, me!" he said, braving the insult of Marsa's cry and look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And thanks for braving the weather to come in and talk with us today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composer Gets His Due] Reference

No, no; change churlish dreams and braving trumpets to mellifluous flutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

A lady braving the dangers of the sea, and an engagement, to seek her true-love!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference

"Well, what will you do," Evelyn challenged, with an heroic air of braving the worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

WITH their undaunted spirit for braving the wilds, the English entered New Guinea in 1885.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Governor Body himself was in the barn, braving the 30-degree temperature for a photo shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Ventura's 'Body' Politics] Reference

Stay home, stay warm, and wait for the roads to be cleared before braving the elements. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guide to safe winter driving] Reference

Or try to get into a life raft, braving the storm and who knew what kind of welcome on land?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shipwreck survivor recalls how town altered his idea of race] Reference

Had I dreamed who it was thus braving the storm, I would have offered my assistance earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

Farther down the coast, you're relaxing in "South Sinai," not braving terrorism-tainted Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paradise War Saved] Reference

Lieutenant Knox led on the forlorn hope, braving danger and death in the cause of their country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Was it for this that he had come from the fleet in the dispatch boat, and was braving all dangers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference

French Embassador's, he was plagued with staring crowds, and he made off after braving it a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

 Some courageous souls are actually braving the violent waves in their polka-dotted bathing suits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bomba] Reference

Often they would wander about the country alone and unguarded, braving or avoiding the dangers of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

And it is you, braving everything, without a thought of the trouble you leave behind you, who come to warn him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The courthouse sequence finds Momma conquering her fears, springing a son from jail and braving a crowd of rubberneckers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directors Make Stars From Scratch] Reference

Now therefore nothing more could hinder me from braving what the Old Man of the King's Hill2 himself calls the Adventure of Reason. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

 He'd walked a couple miles to get there, braving cold winds gusting off the Long Island Sound, a steady mist soaking his camouflage jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden] Reference

This course certainly gives the workers an inspiration to undertakings they would never think of braving but for the courage of their leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference

Let human nature once feel the warmth of its beacon fires, and it will march onward, defying all obstacles, braving all perils till it be won.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

Young men, housewives and children rushed into a burning four-story consumer-electronics mall, braving the flames to loot televisions and VCRs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia In Flames] Reference

But a tacit sport that he engaged in was the evasion of, or the braving of, all sorts of projections that came at him, from men and women alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sporting Life] Reference

Even more good news: Shopping for these inexpensive players doesn't mean braving the crowds at a big-box warehouse club or your mega-electronics store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portable DVD players as holiday gifts?] Reference

It's their only chance of braving quotas and getting into the college educated bandwagon, thus brightening their chances of extricating themselves of destitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saad Khan: Pakistani Universities Facing Closures] Reference

Hollywood actresses braving the stage (Claire Danes learning her vowels in "Pygmalion," Jennifer Garner driving men to distraction, and poetry, in "Cyrano de Bergerac").    From Wordnik.com.  [Scene on Stage] Reference

Diary of a Dead Manis the grueling and vivid account of a man braving a solitary life in a steel prison while hurtling aimlessly through thousands of miles of dead space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of a Dead Man (A Novella Excerpt)] Reference

For those who shun the sun at its midday prime, the evening phase becomes their chosen juncture to emerge and gaze at day without braving sting of heat or pallor of a tan.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURAE] Reference

Tall flowering plants were everywhere and in the distance, you could hear the sounds of the wind whooshing through the sails of the kite-surfers who were braving the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Nayer: Day Tripping: Necker Island] Reference

Oh yeah, and while the Midwest and East Coast are still braving ice storms, we here in Southern California are dining al fresco and sailing along the coast under cloudless skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Vacation Like a Movie Star] Reference