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Brace   /breɪs/   Listen
Brace

noun
1.
A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
2.
Two items of the same kind.  Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke.
3.
A set of two similar things considered as a unit.  Synonym: pair.
4.
Either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material.
5.
A rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it.
6.
Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural).  Synonyms: gallus, suspender.
7.
An appliance that corrects dental irregularities.  Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces.
8.
A carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring.  Synonym: bitstock.
9.
A structural member used to stiffen a framework.  Synonym: bracing.
verb
(past & past part. braced; pres. part. bracing)
1.
Prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult.  Synonym: poise.
2.
Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace.  Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady.
3.
Support by bracing.
4.
Cause to be alert and energetic.  Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate.  "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"



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"Brace" Quotes from Famous Books



... surprised to see how quickly this sort of self-suggestion will brace you up and put new spirit ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... Montaigne's conversation, which, without actual flattery, reconciled Maltravers to himself and his career. It served less, perhaps, to excite than to sober and brace his mind. De Montaigne could have made no man rash, but he could have made many men energetic and persevering. The two friends had some points in common; but Maltravers had far more prodigality of nature and passion about him—had ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... with me? You hardly look at me, and you touch me as if I were a piece of dirt. Supposing I take a brace and we start over, somewhere else? I am tired of knocking round. Come over ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... 'n' I must say that if he and it had fell in together there'd have been a fine tale to tell, for the cover always sinks straight to the bottom, 'n' is no joke to find 'n' fish up,—you and I both know that. Ever since the brace give way I 've always got it on my mind to keep the clothes-bars sittin' over it, but now the brace in the clothes-bars is give way too 'n' as a consequence they won't sit over nothin' no more. If money was looser I 'd certainly never ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs • Anne Warner
... twenty miles from the Land's End, there lived a Cornish gentleman named Trevannion. Just twenty years ago he died, leaving to lament him a brace of noble boys, whose mother all three had mourned, with like profound sorrow, but a ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various


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