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brake
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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
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