Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become more optimistic 2 (context intransitive English) To strengthen oneself, become stronger or more resilient.
WordNet
v. make secure underneath; "undergird the ship" [syn: undergird]
Usage examples of "brace up".
What I do to add a safety margin to my plan is to raise the brace up with just one foot, catching it between my big toe and the toe next to it.
Tappy was holding the brace up with one hand and feeling along its inner side.
The intensity of her desire to see Billie brace up to his old form amazed her.
All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction each and every crumb of trektalk, covetous of his neighbour's word, and if ever, during a Munda conversazione commoted in the nation's interest, delicate tippits were thrown out to him touching his evil courses by some wellwishers, vainly pleading by scriptural arguments with the opprobrious papist about trying to brace up for the kidos of the thing, Scally wag, and be a men instead of a dem scrounger, dish it all, such as: Pray, what is the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?
She drew a wider breath and flexed her hands, reached across and put the arm-brace up, when they would need it.
And then it all happened in a rush: a shout to Jackson to put the wheel over, an order to Aitken to brace up the yards and trim the sheets, and an instruction to Southwick to watch the following ships.
She jacked down on the starter and, with it running in neutral, tucked the brace up, hitched the green skirt halfway up the heavy white meat of her thighs, pushed it off and slid aboard, shifting into forward.