Etymology

By surface analysis, brace +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#BRACING.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/Category:English 2-syllable words#BRACINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BRACING

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪsɪŋ#BRACINGCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪsɪŋ/2 syllables#BRACING

Verb

bracingCategory:English non-lemma forms#BRACINGCategory:English verb forms#BRACINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BRACINGCategory:Pages with entries#BRACINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BRACING

1. present participle and gerund of brace

Adjective

bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)Category:English lemmas#BRACINGCategory:English adjectives#BRACINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BRACINGCategory:Pages with entries#BRACINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BRACING

1. Invigorating or stimulating.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.

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   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

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   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

     The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

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   • 2014 July 31, Joe Pinsker, “Why Taco Bell Likes to Call Its Workers 'Champions'”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Stephen Fineman, a professor at the University of Bath’s School of Management, wrote a bracing paper in 2006 on overly cheery corporate practices.

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Noun

bracing (countable and uncountable, plural bracings)Category:English lemmas#BRACINGCategory:English nouns#BRACINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#BRACINGCategory:English countable nouns#BRACINGCategory:English countable nouns#BRACINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BRACINGCategory:Pages with entries#BRACINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BRACING

English Wikipedia has an article on:

bracing

Wikipedia

1. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#BRACING) That which braces.
   • 1969, Daniel Ruge, Spinal cord injuries‎, page 174:

     In general, we believe it is better to use too much bracing and then reduce the braces to the proper size rather than to start with too little. Cutting down braces gives the patient a feeling of accomplishment

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2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#BRACING) A brace.
   • 1997, Wind Effects on Structures‎, →ISBN, page 101:

     For stability against lateral forces, vertical bracings are provided.

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3. (USCategory:American English#BRACING) A form of the military attention stance.
4. (aeronauticsCategory:en:Aeronautics#BRACING) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.Category:Requests for definitions in English entries#BRACING

Anagrams

• Brignac