unbrace
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020
How eager would her tender hands unbrace The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs, And pluck the helmet which oppos'd her kiss!
From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah
What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
But wasting years, that wither human race, Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
He said, and turn'd his brother's vengeful mind; He stoop'd to reason, and his rage resign'd, No longer bent to rush on certain harms; His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
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