UNBRACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbraced mean? 

• UNBRACED (adjective)
  The adjective UNBRACED has 1 sense:

1. without braces or props

  Familiarity information: UNBRACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBRACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without braces or props

Similar:

unsupported (not held up or borne)

 Context examples 

He was in his library (I mean Doctor Strong was), with his clothes not particularly well brushed, and his hair not particularly well combed; his knee-smalls unbraced; his long black gaiters unbuttoned; and his shoes yawning like two caverns on the hearth-rug.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerated among us within these hundred years past; how the pox, under all its consequences and denominations had altered every lineament of an English countenance; shortened the size of bodies, unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh loose and rancid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)