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say it: brayst
braced is an adjective meaning "positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger". It is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪst/ — brayst. It carries 2 recorded senses.
positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger
“he stood to attention with his shoulders braced”
held up by braces or buttresses
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for braced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.