0 past simple and past participle of brace --
1 to support an object in order to stop it from falling down: --
2 to prepare yourself physically or mentally for something unpleasant: --
That takes us up to the end of the year 1907, and brings us to the period em braced in the present correspondence.
Members of the public had braced themselves for the six-year-old ritual of savage tax increases.
They have braced themselves to face competition abroad.
On the contrary, they feel rather proud, braced and encouraged that people should want to know their opinions.
First, they can carry on, braced for confrontation, protesting that everything will come right after a transition period.
Let us remember that since 1939 the industry has been braced to produce coal at any price to the extent of 240 million tons.
Was not the nation buoyed up and even braced to see him get hold of all of us by the scruff of the neck?
I braced myself for a higher increase than has been announced.
