Answer to "Brace (oneself)" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STEEL which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2006.

Brace (oneself) crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STEEL	57 %	5
GIRD	29 %	4
STIFFEN	14 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Brace (oneself)

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• prepare
• get ready
• gear up
• fitting
• prepared
• readiness
• address
• ready
• in business
• set up
• preparation
• till

Crossword Answer definitions

STEEL noun

1. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
2. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
3. Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
4. Varieties of this metal.
5. (colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
6. Extreme hardness or resilience.

STEEL verb

1. To edge, cover, or point with steel.
2. To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
3. (of mirrors) To back with steel.
4. To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
5. To press with a flat iron.
6. To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
7. To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
8. To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
9. To sharpen with a honing steel.

STEEL adjective

1. Made of steel.
2. Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
3. Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
4. Containing steel.
5. Engraved on steel.

STEEL proper noun

1. Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result STEEL

• Drum material
• Like 1943 pennies
• Pittsburgh export
• Product of Bethlehem
• Kind of wool
• Superman's makeup?
• Type of wool
• Shade of gray or blue
• Iron-carbon alloy
• Stainless ___

More clues leading to the result GIRD

• Encircle
• Fortify
• Surround
• __ one's loins
• Prepare, as one's loins
• Reinforce
• Equip with a belt
• Put a belt on
• Tighten
• Strengthen

More clues leading to the result STIFFEN

• Brace oneself
• Become rigid
• Tighten up
• React to an insult, maybe
• Use starch
• Add starch to
• Jell.
• Tense.
• Add starch
• Become less flexible