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
And to unbrace the bandages of state Is as clear air to incense-stifled souls.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly, Flame thro’ the vast of air, and reach the sky. l ’Twas Neptune’s charge his coursers to unbrace, And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace
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
His real expression was, 'that he would not unbrace a single nerve for any treaty France could offer; such was their entire want of faith, morality, &c.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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