braced's Usage Examples:

Thanks to its lyrical content - Franklin demands that a man better think about what he's trying to do and repeats "freedom" over and over in the chorus - the song was embraced by the burgeoning feminist movement of the time.

At thirty, still a dependant, without a settled occupation, without a definite social status, he often regretted that he had not " embraced the lucrative pursuits of the law or of trade, the chances of civil office or India adventure, or even the fat slumbers of the church.

His son Louis had embraced the Roman Catholic faith through the persuasions of a female domestic who had lived thirty years in the family.

In the case of braced girder bridges, the wind pressure is taken as acting on a continuous surface extending from the rails to the top of the carriages, plus the vertical projected area of so much of one girder as is exposed above the train or below the rails.

I can only imagine other uses you might have embraced, for personal financial enhancement.

The body heat of someone kneeling beside her made her blink, and she braced herself for the doc shooting her up again.

He had embraced the Motazilite doctrine about free will and predestination, and was in particular shocked at the opinion which had spread among the Moslem doctors that the Koran was the uncreated word of God.

They stood embraced for a time.

The smooth ride grew bumpy suddenly, and Brady braced himself against his seat.

In a rush to get to some place you didn't want to go a few hours ago?Why get in a rush to ruin your trip?She braced herself, expecting to feel some sort of rush of energy, like she did when she touched Jule.

In the capture of animals would be involved the pedagogic influence of animal life; the engineering embraced in taking them in large numbers; the cunning and strategy necessary to hunters so poorly armed giving rise to disguises and lures of many kinds.

"Fiddling with your cat's nutritional balance because you have embraced a dietary theory can sometimes yield a diet that is dangerously deficient.

His Whig connexions combined with his transatlantic experiences to predispose Lord Edward to sympathize with the doctrines of the French Revolution, which he embraced with ardour when he visited Paris in October 1792.

Synonyms:

prepared,

Antonyms:

unready, unprepared,