brake
Nouns
- (n) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- (n) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- (n) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum, bracken,
- (n) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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(n) anything that slows or hinders a process
- she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage
- new legislation will put the brakes on spending
Verbs
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(v) stop travelling by applying a brake
- We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
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(v) cause to stop by applying the brakes
- brake the car before you go into a curve