Similar words: embrace, disgraced, defaced, bracket, race, trace, grace, bric-a-brac. Meaning: [breɪs] 
adj. 1. positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger 2. held up by braces or buttresses.
adj. 1. positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger 2. held up by braces or buttresses. 
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(91) As one with us, a sharer in our needs and weaknesses, He was wholly dependent upon God, and in the secret place of prayer He sought divine strength, that He might go forth braced for duty and trial.
(92) The freshness of the September morning inspired and braced him.
(93) He unbraced successively each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which one incomplete.
(94) Each quadrangular mesh should be braced by cables in order to increase the planar shear stiffness. In other words, grid shells are composite structures formed by flexible cables and stiff bars.
(95) The research indicates that the style of structure has a significant effect on the cost of project and it is better to apply frames braced construction with rigid joint to heavy-duty multi-span plant.
(96) The closet was a shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across, a faded cretonne curtain on a string closing it off from the rest of the room.
(97) He braced himself, gathered his strength, and drove his right elbow back into a surprising pillowy softness.
(98) Authorities had braced for large - scale protests marking the culmination Sunday of an important Shiite Muslim commemoration.
(99) Among the patients with cerebral palsy, no significant differences in the standardized outcome measurements were found between the braced and unbraced conditions or between the two braced conditions.
(100) "Overall, this is as clear a signal as we could have expected that the MPC is braced to cut Bank Rate soon and in size, " Walker said.
(101) V - TYPE eccentrically braced frame has well resistant - seismic behavior.
(102) This paper presents the method of iteration and accumulation for braced sheeting pile wall in deep excavation engineering(sentencedict.com), which be suited to heterogeneous stratumstratified soil.
(103) Investors should also be braced be on the receiving end of higher regulatory costs.
(104) The over - all seismic behavior of D - type Eccentrically Braced Frames is studied by the method.