"brace up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "braces up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bracing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "braced up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "braced up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brace up (third-person singular simple present braces up, present participle bracing up, simple past and past participle braced up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Construction",
          "orig": "en:Construction",
          "parents": [
            "Architecture",
            "Engineering",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Technology",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 39 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 37 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Coram, American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day",
          "text": "Ed wired the house, dug a basement with pick and shovel, braced it up, bricked it, and installed a furnace and a coal chute […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strengthen with bracing material."
      ],
      "id": "en-brace_up-en-verb-jygZmYMd",
      "links": [
        [
          "construction",
          "construction"
        ],
        [
          "bracing",
          "bracing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, construction) To strengthen with bracing material."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "construction",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 39 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 37 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become more optimistic."
      ],
      "id": "en-brace_up-en-verb-NyXyLDD5",
      "links": [
        [
          "optimistic",
          "optimistic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become more optimistic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 39 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 37 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient."
      ],
      "id": "en-brace_up-en-verb-oBl-qw9n",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "strengthen",
          "strengthen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brace up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "braces up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bracing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "braced up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "braced up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brace up (third-person singular simple present braces up, present participle bracing up, simple past and past participle braced up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Construction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Robert Coram, American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day",
          "text": "Ed wired the house, dug a basement with pick and shovel, braced it up, bricked it, and installed a furnace and a coal chute […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strengthen with bracing material."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "construction",
          "construction"
        ],
        [
          "bracing",
          "bracing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, construction) To strengthen with bracing material."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "construction",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become more optimistic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "optimistic",
          "optimistic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become more optimistic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "strengthen",
          "strengthen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brace up"
}