bracing
English
Pronunciation
Verb
bracing
Adjective
bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)
- Invigorating or stimulating.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- 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.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
Translations
stimulating
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Noun
bracing (countable and uncountable, plural bracings)
- (uncountable) That which braces.
- 1969, Daniel Ruge, Spinal cord injuries[1], 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
- (countable) A brace.
- (US) A form of the military attention stance.