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Bracing vs Clenching - What's the difference?

bracing | clenching |

As verbs the difference between bracing and clenching

is that bracing is while clenching is .

As nouns the difference between bracing and clenching

is that bracing is a brace while clenching is the act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc) is clenched.

As an adjective bracing

is invigorating or stimulating.

bracing

English

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.
  • *
    • , 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

    • Anagrams

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    clenching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.
  • * 1965 , Edward J. Murray, Sleep, dreams, and arousal (page 151)
    • Many of the clenchings [of muscles] were uncoordinated, and one would guess that they occurred more and more as the sleep synchronized.