bracing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/

Verb

bracing

1. present participle of brace

Adjective

bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)

1. Invigorating or stimulating.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

Noun

bracing (plural bracings)

1. A brace.
2. (US) A form of the military attention stance.

Anagrams

• Brignac