Synonyms: brake
Definition: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Similar words: restraint, constraint
Definition: a device that retards something's motion
Usage: the car did not have proper restraints fitted
Synonyms: brake
Definition: anything that slows or hinders a process
Usage: she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage; new legislation will put the brakes on spending
Similar words: restraint, constraint
Definition: a device that retards something's motion
Usage: the car did not have proper restraints fitted
Synonyms: brake
Definition: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
Synonyms: Pteridium aquilinum, bracken, brake, pasture brake
Definition: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Similar words: fern
Definition: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
Synonyms: brake
Definition: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
Similar words: fern
Definition: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
Synonyms: brake
Definition: cause to stop by applying the brakes
Usage: brake the car before you go into a curve
Synonyms: brake
Definition: stop travelling by applying a brake
Usage: We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
Definition: come to a halt, stop moving
Usage: the car stopped; She stopped in front of a store window