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Quick definitions from WordNet (brake)
▸ noun: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
▸ noun: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
▸ noun: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
▸ noun: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
▸ verb: cause to stop by applying the brakes ("Brake the car before you go into a curve")
▸ verb: stop travelling by applying a brake ("We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #5756)
▸ Also see braky
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▸ noun: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
▸ noun: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
▸ noun: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
▸ noun: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
▸ verb: cause to stop by applying the brakes ("Brake the car before you go into a curve")
▸ verb: stop travelling by applying a brake ("We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road")
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #5756)
▸ Also see braky
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to brake
▸ Usage examples for brake
▸ Idioms related to brake (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing brake
▸ Words that often appear near brake
▸ Rhymes of brake
▸ Invented words related to brake