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. Stearn Hodge:

   I still remember the CATSA agent saying,' Well, you could get a wheelchair.' How's a one-armed guy going to run a wheelchair ? how am I going to go down a ramp and brake with one hand ? But that shouldn't even have to come up.

2. Michael Moller:

   The Secretary-General has launched a reform process that is limping, but it's limping precisely because of the micromanagement by member states that has reached gigantic proportions and is acting as a massive brake on any kind of forward imaginative and innovative movement of the organization.

3. Roxana Elizabeth Flores:

   People signaled and I immediately saw the person on the tracks and applied the emergency brake, as the protocol says.

4. Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani:

   In this way, the brake couldn’t function, and this brought about the fact that when the cable broke, the cabin fell backwards.

5. Niels Christensen:

   Looking at the U.S. economic data, everything is looking quite positive. No one expects higher interest rates to be a brake on economic growth.