BRACINGS Synonyms

• a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• information that makes more forcible or convincing

• (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

• a device designed to provide additional strength

• an act performed to strengthen approved behavior

• a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

• the act of propping up with shores

• becoming stronger

• the act of increasing the strength of something

• the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• aiding the cause or policy or interests of

• something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• documentary validation

• the financial means whereby one lives

• supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• any device that bears the weight of another thing

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

• support materially or financially

• be behind; approve of

• be the physical support of; carry the weight of

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• adopt as a belief

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• argue or speak in defense of

• play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• be a regular customer or client of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows

• support and strengthen

• prop up with a pillow or bolster

• add padding to

• a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling

• any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie

• a propeller that rotates to push against air

• support by placing against something solid or rigid

• support from beneath

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• a support that steadies or strengthens something else

• two items of the same kind

• a set of two similar things considered as a unit

• either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material

• a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it

• elastic straps that hold trousers up

• an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

• a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring

• a structural member used to stiffen a framework

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

• support by bracing

• cause to be alert and energetic

• quick and energetic

• imparting vitality and energy

• very active

• become brisk

• recently made, produced, or harvested

• not canned or otherwise preserved

• not containing or composed of salt water

• very recently

• (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again

• imparting vitality and energy

• original and of a kind not seen before

• having recently calved and therefore able to give milk

• with restored energy

• not soured or preserved

• free from impurities

• not yet used or soiled

• improperly forward or bold

• imparting vitality and energy

• imparting vitality and energy

• pleasantly new or different

• of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue

• employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words

• (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch

• lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine

• a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring

• (music) the first note of a diatonic scale

• a medicine that strengthens and invigorates

• relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale

• imparting vitality and energy