Usually means: Strengthen or prepare for impact.
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  1. brace up: Merriam-Webster
  2. brace up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brace up: Vocabulary.com
  4. brace up: Wiktionary
  5. brace up: Dictionary.com
  6. brace up: Rhymezone
  7. brace up: FreeDictionary.org
  8. brace up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. brace up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brace up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brace up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (brace up)

verb:  (transitive, construction) To strengthen with bracing material.
verb:  (intransitive) To become more optimistic.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient.

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