Brake

[n] a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
[n] an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
[n] large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
[n] any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
[v] cause to stop by applying the brakes
[v] stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

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Synonyms

bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum

Related Terms

arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, bearing rein, bit, block, boscage, bosket, bring to, bring up short, canebrake, ceja, chain, chamisal, chaparral, check, checkmate, checkrein, chock, clip the wings, clog, constraint, control, coppice, copse, copsewood,