Bracing
['breɪsɪŋ] or ['bresɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) imparting vitality and energy; 'the bracing mountain air' .
Editor: Verna--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace
(a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
(n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
(n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Strengthening, invigorating.
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Examples
- In 1810 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the English navy, devised and introduced the system of diagonal bracing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The air blowing on the brow was fresh, and sweet, and bracing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That evening found us in the cold, bracing atmosphere of the Peak country, in which Dr. Huxtable's famous school is situated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had held the bull's tail to pull him away from a fallen man, bracing hard and pulling and twisting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He seemed to bring a whiff of his strong, fresh, bracing, east-coast air with him as he entered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The walls of stately date-palms that fenced the gardens and bordered the way, threw their shadows down and made the air cool and bracing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That bracing up was only a part of the large egotistical schemes that dominated him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She needed bodily strengthening and bracing as well as rest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We are usually not conscious of the air around us, but sometimes we realize that the air is heavy, while at other times we feel the bracing effect of the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is built on a plain two thousand feet above tide water, where the air is bracing and the situation healthy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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