Synonym: curb, decelerate, slow down, stop. Similar words: brand, branch, brand new, embrace, celebration, take, bake, make. Meaning: [breɪk] 
n. 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. v. 1. stop travelling by applying a brake 2. cause to stop by applying the brakes.
n. 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. v. 1. stop travelling by applying a brake 2. cause to stop by applying the brakes. 
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31. She cut in on a red Ford, forcing the driver to brake heavily.
32. Is the brake on?
33. She had to brake hard to avoid running into the car in front.
34. Rises in interest rates usually act as a brake on expenditure.
35. He would zoom up to junctions and brake hard/sharply at the last minute.
36. There's too much travel on the brake, it needs tightening.
37. This brake can't be banked on if we have to pull up suddenly.
38. The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.
39. The lorry cut in suddenly and I had to brake sharply.
40. The rise in interest rates acted as a brake on expenditure.
41. Long skid marks on the pavement indicated the driver had attempted to brake.
42. Wade released the hand brake and pulled away from the curb.
43. He yanked on the brake when he saw a big stone ahead.
44. The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake.
45. His right leg bumped against the parking brake.
46. The water itself acts as a brake.
47. He thought: we could have pressed the brake pedal.
48. I found the brake pedal and the wheels locked.
49. How did one saw through a brake cable anyway?
50. Do the test again with the rear brake.
51. The brake line had to be bled.
52. And that will put a brake on industrial well-being.
53. The back brake on my bike needs adjusting.
54. He would saw through the brake cable.
55. Shortages can put a brake on development.
56. His front brake cable disengaged.
57. Yet continuity in this case implies Washington putting a brake on Kim's sunshine diplomacy. Sentencedict.com
58. His crowning achievement was his invention of the railroad air brake.
59. Confined to the fine arts,[sentencedict.com] this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance.
60. He's now heavy on the front brake, while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever.