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unbracing

unbracing is the present participle and gerund of unbrace.

Meaning of unbrace

Verb

unbrace (third-person singular simple present unbraces, present participle unbracing, simple past and past participle unbraced)

  1. (transitive) To undo, unfasten; to relax, loosen.
    • The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart, / Knit all his forces, and gan soone vnbrace / His grasping hold [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about unbracing

What is unbracing the present participle and gerund of?
Unbracing is the present participle and gerund of unbrace.

Words near unbracing in the dictionary

  1. unbra'd
  2. unbrace
  3. unbraced
  4. unbraceleted
  5. unbraces
  6. unbracing
  7. unbracket
  8. unbracketed
  9. unbracketing
  10. unbrackets
  11. unbrackish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbracing (page history and authors); unbrace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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