brake meaning and definition

BRAKE noun

Definition of brake (noun)

1. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
2. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
3. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
   • synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum
4. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
5. 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"

BRAKE verb

Definition of brake (verb)

1. stop travelling by applying a brake
   • "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
2. cause to stop by applying the brakes
   • "brake the car before you go into a curve"