broach

1. V-T When you broach a subject, especially a sensitive one, you mention it in order to start a discussion on it. 提出

Eventually I broached the subject of her early life. 最後我提出她早年生活的話題。

2. V to cause (a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously or (of a sailing vessel) to swerve sharply and dangerously in a following sea, so as to be broadside to the waves 使(帆船)突然劇烈轉曏[nautical]

3. N a long tapered toothed cutting tool for enlarging holes 擴孔機