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Noun
- 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
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Verb
- cause to stop by applying the brakes
- brake the car before you go into a curve
- stop travelling by applying a brake
- We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road