Synonyms for brake
breɪkbrake

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1. brakenoun

   a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

   Synonyms:
   bracken, pasture brake

2. brakenoun

   any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

   Synonyms:
   bracken, pasture brake

3. bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinumnoun

   large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

   Synonyms:
   bracken, pasture brake

4. brakenoun

   an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

   Synonyms:
   bracken, pasture brake

5. brakeverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   bracken, pasture brake

6. brakeverb

   stop travelling by applying a brake

   "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

7. brakeverb

   cause to stop by applying the brakes

   "brake the car before you go into a curve"

Matched Categories

1. • Driving
   • Fern
   • Restraint
   • Stop
   • Thicket

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1. brakenoun

   Synonyms:
   fern

2. brakenoun

   Synonyms:
   thicket, brushwood, jungle

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1. brakenoun

   Synonyms:
   thicket

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1. List of paraphrases for "brake":

   braking, brakes, frein, rem, curb, hindrance, disincentive, obstacle, stop

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1. Michael Brown:

   We have approximately 1200 feet of distinguishable heavy braking marks from the tires, looked like they were effectively trying to brake that aircraft.

2. Bonnie Baha:

   It's like putting your foot on the brake when there's no gas in the car to begin with, it's hard to say this would be the start of a tightening cycle, but I think the probability is not zero that (the Fed) would have to retract at some point.

3. Maali Simon:

   When racing a car, sometimes it can be the better option not to brake, when racing round a bend.

4. Chief Justice John Roberts:

   Heien is not appealing a brake-light ticket, he is appealing a cocaine-trafficking conviction as to which there is no asserted mistake of fact or law.

5. Chief Bill Citty:

   I'm not going to speculate on what that tapping of the brake could mean. It could mean a lot of different things.