BRAKE

Definition:

1. [noun] a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
   
   
2. [noun] any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
   
   
3. [noun] large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
   Synonyms: bracken, pasture Pteridium aquilinum
   
   
4. [noun] an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
   
   
5. [verb] stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
   
   
6. [verb] cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
   
   

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Related Words:

• skid
• airbrake
• brake system, brakes
• coaster brake
• hand brake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake

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