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brake
 
Noun brake has 4 senses
  1. brake - a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
    --1 is a kind of     restraint, constraint
    --1 is a part of wheeled vehicle
    --1 has particulars:
     airbrake; brake system, brakes; coaster brake; hand brake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake
    Derived forms: verb brake1, verb brake2
  2. brake - any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
    --2 is a kind of     fern
    --2 is a member of Pteris, genus Pteris
  3. bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum - large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
    --3 is a kind of fern
    --3 is a member of Pteridium, genus Pteridium
  4. brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
    --4 is a kind of     brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
Verb brake has 2 senses
  1. brake - stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
    --1 is one way to     stop, halt
    Derived form: noun brake1
    Sample sentence:
    These cars won't brake
  2. brake - cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
    --2 is one way to     stop
    Derived form: noun brake1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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