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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