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poisingverbpresent participle of poise to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallythe disgraced business executive poised herself for the difficult press conference bracing, forearming, fortifying, nerving, psyching (up), readying, steeling, strengthening arminghardening, inuring, seasoning, tougheningbolstering, boosting, buoying (up), buttressing, enforcing, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supporting, sustainingcheering (up), comforting, emboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiringrallying, rousing, stirring daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, psyching (out), shaking, unnervingdebilitating, enervating, enfeebling, prostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, undercutting, undermining, weakening to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the airthe falcon poised in the air for an instant before diving to attack its prey drifting, floating, gliding, hanging, hovering, riding, sailing, swimming, wafting bobbing, dangling, suspendingbuoyingballooning, rafting settling, sinking diving, lunging, plungingdipping, immersing, submerging, submersing |