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brake
noun
verb
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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noun
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
noun
anything that slows or hinders a process
“she was not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage”
noun
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
noun
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
noun
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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”
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she was not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage
new legislation will put the brakes on spending
brake the car before you go into a curve
We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
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