DICTOMETER

BRAKE

(brake, frenar, freno, brems, bremse)

1. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Bracken
   • Pasture brake
   • Brake
   • Pteridium aquilinum
   Definitions:
   • large coarse fern often several feet high
   • essentially weed ferns
   • cosmopolitan
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • anything that slows or hinders a process
   Examples:
   • She wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage
   • New legislation will put the brakes on spending
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • stop travelling by applying a brake
   Examples:
   • We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Brake
   Definitions:
   • cause to stop by applying the brakes
   Examples:
   • Brake the car before you go into a curve