How to pronounce brake

a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

Synonyms: brackenpasture

an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

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”

stop travelling by applying a brake

“We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”

cause to stop by applying the brakes

“brake the car before you go into a curve”