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
Vocabulary lists containing unbrace
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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
How eager would her tender hands unbrace The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs, And pluck the helmet which oppos'd her kiss!
From Percy A Tragedy by Hannah More
His real expression was, 'that he would not unbrace a single nerve for any treaty France could offer; such was their entire want of faith, morality, &c.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
King Solomon, where ere he lay, Did nere unbrace a kinder; O! why should Ginnee gang away, And I be left behind her?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly, Flame thro’ the vast of air, and reach the sky. l ’Twas Neptune’s charge his coursers to unbrace, And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson
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
So when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing by itself, unbraced, Ferris’s wheel looked dangerously fragile.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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 Charles Rogers
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 George Alfred Townsend
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