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Definition of 'brake'

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Noun

  1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  3. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
       Synonyms: bracken pasture brake Pteridium aquilinum
  4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

Verb

  1. stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
  2. cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"


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