BRACED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does braced mean? 

• BRACED (adjective)
  The adjective BRACED has 2 senses:

1. positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

2. held up by braces or buttresses

  Familiarity information: BRACED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

Context example:

he stood to attention with his shoulders braced

Similar:

prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Held up by braces or buttresses

Synonyms:

braced; buttressed

Similar:

supported (held up or having the weight borne especially from below)

 Context examples 

His braced fore paws dislodged a pebble, and with sharp-pricked ears and peering eyes he watched the fall of the pebble till it struck at their feet.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When I came to I found that it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And even after fatigue came, his heritage of endurance braced him to endless endeavour and enabled him to drive his complaining body onward.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We braced the old hulks with our spare cables, and God knows there was never a Levanter that I did not expect it to send us to the bottom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Yet you say I was made well. Do you see this?” He braced his legs and feet, pressing the cabin floor with his toes in a clutching sort of way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But he braced himself to the shock of Spitz’s charge, then joined the flight out on the lake.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When we got home the fresh breeze had braced her up, and her pale cheeks were really more rosy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was within three yards of us, this sinister figure, and I had braced myself to meet his spring, before I realized that he had no idea of our presence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

PHD fingers fold into an interleaved Zn-finger chelating two Zn ions in an atypical cross-braced conformation also shared by the FYVE and RING fingers; the zinc sites are located at opposite ends of a beta-sheet.

(PHD Finger, NCI Thesaurus)