brace up

1. 1.

   make secure underneath

   “undergird the ship”

   Synonymsundergird

   Broaderstrengthen

Questions about brace up

What does brace up mean?

brace up means "make secure underneath".

What is another word for brace up?

Close synonyms include undergird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brace up a common word?

brace up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.