brake

/bɹˈeɪk/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

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
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”

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”

Synonyms for brake

• bracken
• pasture brake
• Pteridium aquilinum

Words that rhyme with brake

• break
• make
• take
• shake
• stake
• rake
• snake
• wake
• fake
• flake
• mistake
• undertake
• ache
• bake
• cake
• retake
• awake
• intake
• lake
• overtake
• partake
• quake
• sake
• bellyache
• cheesecake
• drake
• earthquake
• fruitcake
• hake
• headache