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Braving vs Bracing - What's the difference?

braving | bracing |

As verbs the difference between braving and bracing

is that braving is present participle of lang=en while bracing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between braving and bracing

is that braving is a bravado; a boast while bracing is a brace.

As an adjective bracing is

invigorating or stimulating.

braving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bravado; a boast.
    • With so proud a strain / Of threats and bravings . — Chapman.

    bracing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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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