Definition of "bracing" []

• Invigorating or refreshing; strengthening: a bracing tonic. (adjective)
• A support; a brace. (noun)
• Braces considered as a group. (noun)

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• "So the 'result' of having canines that function in bracing may be a by-product that peccaries have used to their advantage."
• "Perhaps most bracing is the open struggle its hero wages against his own well-earned cynicism."
• "As I'm going over I get a glance at DeJong, high-bracing from the bow, but he knows the goose is cooked."