brace
n 1 : an appliance that gives support to movable parts (as a joint or a fractured bone), to weak muscles (as in paralysis), or to strained ligaments (as of the lower back) 2 braces pl : dental appliances used to exert pressure to straighten misaligned teeth , vt, braced brac*ing : to furnish or support with a brace <heavily braced because of polio> .
Similar sounding terms: bruise bur·sa
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