unbrace
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove the braces of.
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to free from tension; relax.
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to weaken.
verb
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to remove tension or strain from; relax
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to remove a brace or braces from
Etymology
Origin of unbrace
1350–1400; Middle English unbracen to free of clothing or armor. See un- 2, brace
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Terms of a Carver: Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster.
From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James
What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
He said, and turn'd his brother's vengeful mind; He stoop'd to reason, and his rage resign'd, No longer bent to rush on certain harms; His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Retrofitting soft-story homes costs much more than fixing an unbraced “cripple wall”: $14,000 to $28,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
One prior case with possible legal parallels involves the 2013 collapse in Philadelphia of an unbraced wall of a building that was being demolished.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Benscop used an excavator on the site that morning despite rules that an unbraced wall must be taken down by hand.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
But wire-bracing, gears, cams, valves, engine cowling, various parts of unbraced sheet metal in airplane construction will, by their vibration, for some time keep planes from becoming as silent as mod ern automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing by itself, unbraced, Ferris’s wheel looked dangerously fragile.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Judge Custis remarked, in spite of his fagged face, for good resolution and yesterday's unbracing had left him somewhat limp and haggard still.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred
Though swift in her racing, Like the kinsfolk before her, No heart-burst, unbracing Her strength, rushes o'er her.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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