Definitions For Brake

noun

• A braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle
• A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Anything that slows or hinders a process
• An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
• Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
• To use the brake on a vehicle

verb

• Cause to stop by applying the brakes
• Stop travelling by applying a brake