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. General Motors:

   General Motors is voluntarily recalling certain 2014-2018 model year Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra, and GMC Yukon vehicles for a condition related to increased brake pedal effort, in rare circumstances, these vehicles may have a condition in which the engine-mounted mechanical vacuum pump output may decrease over time, decreasing the amount of vacuum/power brake assist.

2. Roxana Elizabeth Flores:

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

3. Paul Valery:

   Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

4. 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.

5. Jeff Tucker:

   Inflation expectations themselves play into mortgage rates and it impacts the monetary policy, the Fed wants to wait and see inflation coming down before they take their foot off the brake on raising rates. Growing consensus is to expect another step down in the pace of tightening.