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

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

Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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