"bracing" meaning in All languages combined

See bracing on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-bracing.wav [US] Forms: more bracing [comparative], most bracing [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj}} bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)
  1. Invigorating or stimulating. Translations (stimulating): ободрителен (obodritelen) (Bulgarian), здравословен (zdravosloven) (Bulgarian), virkistävä (Finnish), elvyttävä (Finnish), innostava (Finnish), erfrischend (German), anregend (German), бодря́щий (bodrjáščij) [masculine] (Russian), stärkande (Swedish), uppfriskande (Swedish), uppiggande (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bracing-en-adj-2VAb~4jJ

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-bracing.wav [US] Forms: bracings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bracing (countable and uncountable, plural bracings)
  1. (uncountable) That which braces. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-bracing-en-noun-B8auzLZQ
  2. (countable) A brace. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-bracing-en-noun-NbzsRfJg
  3. (US) A form of the military attention stance. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-bracing-en-noun-rGZ~C-Xb Disambiguation of Military: 0 0 0 100 0 Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sway-bracing

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-bracing.wav [US]
Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} bracing
  1. present participle and gerund of brace Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: brace
    Sense id: en-bracing-en-verb-ZLPAjvB7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 7 1 13 76 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 9 1 14 71

Inflected forms

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