What is another word for brake?
Synonyms for brake
breɪkbrake
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Princeton's WordNet
brakenoun
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Synonyms:
bracken, pasture brakebrakenoun
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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bracken, pasture brakebracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinumnoun
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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bracken, pasture brakebrakenoun
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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bracken, pasture brakebrakeverb
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"
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bracken, pasture brakebrakeverb
stop travelling by applying a brake
"We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
brakeverb
cause to stop by applying the brakes
"brake the car before you go into a curve"
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
brakenoun
Synonyms:
thicket
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Brake
Brake vs. Break -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Brake and Break.
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#1038 | stop | |
#6517 | brake | |
#9238 | brakes | |
#10467 | rem | |
#12551 | curb | |
#16523 | obstacle | |
#21794 | braking | |
#40774 | bracken | |
#44966 | hindrance | |
#68777 | disincentive | |
#193649 | frein |
How to use brake in a sentence?
We do not have enough qualified labor, that [ has put ] a brake on our economy for at least the last 10 years.
I was totally at blame, i thought I would be able to slide in between, but someone turned in and I was already under full brake and I couldn't go anywhere.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
The car was in excellent condition out of storage, all of the original bits were there, no missing parts, only the front end was banged in, so we had to hammer that out because it was simply too ugly. The rest of the paint was dull but intact and all we had to do was get rid of the oxidation, and it came out very decent. The only things that we had to replace ended up being brake lines and a few bits of wiring.
He was passed out with his foot on the brake in a moving lane of traffic.
Translations for brake
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- فَرَمَلَة, مِكْبَح, فَرْمَلَ, َكَبَحArabic
- əyləc, tormozAzerbaijani
- то́рмазBelarusian
- спирам, спира́чкаBulgarian
- freCatalan, Valencian
- brzdit, brzdaCzech
- bremseDanish
- Bremse, bremsenGerman
- πέδη, φρενάρω, τροχοπέδη, φρένο, φρέναραGreek
- bremso, bremsiloEsperanto
- frenar, frenoSpanish
- pidurEstonian
- galgaBasque
- ترمزPersian
- vaivata, hidastua, äestää, jarruttaa, levyntaivutin, murskata, loukuttaa, jarru, hidaste, taivutinFinnish
- bremsaFaroese
- frein, freinerFrench
- בלם, בלמיםHebrew
- ब्रेकHindi
- fékez, fékHungarian
- արգելակ, արգելակելArmenian
- remIndonesian
- frenoIdo
- frenare, frenoItalian
- 制動機, [[ブレーキ]]を[[かける]], ブレーキJapanese
- მუხრუჭიGeorgian
- тормезKazakh
- 제동기, 브레이크Korean
- fregitLatin
- stabdysLithuanian
- bremzēt, bremzeLatvian
- ко́чницаMacedonian
- braken, remming, rem, remmer, afremmen, remmenDutch
- bremsNorwegian
- frenOccitan
- hamować, hamulecPolish
- travão, freio, freiarPortuguese
- fragn, frein, frainRomansh
- frânăRomanian
- то́рмоз, тормози́ть, затормози́тьRussian
- кочница, kočiti, kočnica, zakočitiSerbo-Croatian
- brzdaSlovak
- zavoraSlovene
- bromsaSwedish
- тормозTajik
- เบรกThai
- tormozTurkmen
- frenTurkish
- гальмува́ти, загальмува́ти, гальмо́Ukrainian
- بریکUrdu
- tormozUzbek
- phanhVietnamese
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