: to furnish or support with a brace. : to give life or energy to : freshen. : to place firmly. : something that connects, fastens, or tightens. : a tool with a U-shaped bend that is used to turn wood-boring bits.
BRACE definition: 1. something that is used to support or connect things, or to make something stronger: 2. a set of…. Learn more.
To brace something means to strengthen or support it with something else. Overhead, the lights showed the old timbers, used to brace the roof. [VERB noun] You can refer to two things of the same kind as a brace of that thing. The plural form is also brace.
Definition of brace noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons.
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To prepare or position so as to be ready for impact or danger: Union members braced themselves for a confrontation with management.
There are 34 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun brace, 11 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English brace1 /breɪs/ verb 1 [transitive] to mentally or physically prepare yourself or someone else for something unpleasant that is going to happen brace yourself (for something) Nancy braced herself for the inevitable arguments.