Definition of Brake

Noun

  • anything that slows or hinders a process
    "she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage"
    "new legislation will put the brakes on spending"
  • an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  • large coarse fern often several feet high
    essentially weed ferns
    cosmopolitan
    - pasture brake - pteridium aquilinum
  • any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  • a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Verb

  • cause to stop by applying the brakes
    "brake the car before you go into a curve"
  • stop travelling by applying a brake
    "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

Word games points for the Brake

  • Scrabble® score of the brake (11)
  • Word Chums® score of the brake (13)
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Unscramble brake

41 unscramble word found using the letters brake.
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