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

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

That holy one! who not his blood would spare, But did the dark Tartarean bolts unbrace; He, too, doth from my soul death's terrors chase: Then welcome, death! thy impress I would wear.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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