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Bracing vs Embracing - What's the difference?

bracing | embracing |

As verbs the difference between bracing and embracing

is that bracing is while embracing is .

As nouns the difference between bracing and embracing

is that bracing is a brace while embracing is the act of giving an embrace.

As an adjective bracing

is invigorating or stimulating.

bracing

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Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Invigorating or stimulating.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • 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.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=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

    (en noun) (wikipedia bracing)
  • a brace
  • (US) a form of the military attention stance

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    embracing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving an embrace.
  • * 1849 , Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)
    • Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings , proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!

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