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brake

noun
  1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  2. anything that slows or hinders a process
    “They were not ready to put the brakes on their marriage with a delay to their wedding.”
  3. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  4. large coarse fern often several feet high
    brackenpasture brake
  5. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
verb
  1. to cause to stop by applying the brakes
    “You should brake the car before you go into a curve.”
  2. to stop travelling by applying a brake
    “We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road.”