brace
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(verb) support by bracing |
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Related Words: hold, hold up, support, sustain, tread |
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(verb) support or hold steady, as if with a brace; "brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel" |
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Synonyms: steady |
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Related Words: beef up, fortify, strengthen |
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(verb) prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult |
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Synonyms: poise |
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Related Words: gear up, nerve, prepare, ready, set, set up, steel |
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(noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework |
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Synonyms: bracing |
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Related Words: crosspiece, crosstie, gusset, gusset plate, guy, guy cable, guy rope, railroad tie, reinforcement, sleeper, stay, strengthener, stringer, structural member, strut, tie |
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(noun) the stock of a tool used for turning a drilling bit |
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Synonyms: bitstock |
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Related Words: stock |
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(noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities |
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Synonyms: braces |
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Related Words: dental appliance |
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(noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else; "he wore a brace on his knee" |
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Related Words: ankle brace, back brace, knee brace, neck brace, reinforcement, strengthener, support |
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(noun) straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural) |
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Synonyms: gallus, suspender |
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Related Words: apparel, clothes, clothing, vesture, wear, wearing apparel |
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(noun) a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it |
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Related Words: rope, royal brace |
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(noun) either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material |
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Related Words: punctuation, punctuation mark |
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(noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit |
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Synonyms: pair |
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Related Words: Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, set |
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(verb) cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me" |
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Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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Related Words: affect, animate, cathect, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, reinvigorate, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(noun) two items of the same kind |
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Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, doubleton, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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Related Words: 2, II, deuce, two |
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