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Bookmark or Share- Brace Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. : something that transmits, directs, resists, or supports weight or pressure: such as. a. : a diagonal piece of structural material that serves to strengthen something (such as a framework) walls held up with braces. b. medical : an appliance for supporting a body part. has braces on his legs. a neck brace.
- BRACE definition and meaning | Collins English DictionaryA brace is a device attached to a part of a person's body, for example to a weak leg, in order to strengthen or support it. He wore leg braces after polio in childhood. She wears a neck brace. Synonyms: support, stay, prop, bracer More Synonyms of brace.
- BRACED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionaryto prepare yourself physically or mentally for something unpleasant: The passengers were told to brace themselves (= to press their bodies hard against something or hold them very stiff) for a crash landing. See more. (Definition of braced from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of braced.
- brace verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...brace something (specialist) to make something stronger or more solid by supporting it with something. The roof was braced by lengths of timber. Definition of brace verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- BRACE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionarysomething that is used to support or connect things, or to make something stronger: He was recently fitted with a brace for his bad back. braces [ plural ] US (UK brace) a set of connected wires that is attached to a person's teeth in order to make them straight: I had to wear braces for my crooked teeth when I was a teenager. UK (US suspenders)
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