Antonyms for brake
breɪkbrake

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1. • Driving
   • Fern
   • Restraint
   • Stop
   • Thicket

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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"

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1. brakenoun

   Synonyms:
   thicket

How to use brake in a sentence?

1. Hideo Kumano:

   Kuroda's comment in parliament was very effective in putting a brake on yen falls. It also made me believe the BOJ won't ease again for the rest of this year.

2. Michael Grömling:

   We do not have enough qualified labor, that [ has put ] a brake on our economy for at least the last 10 years.

3. Gerhard Pfeifer:

   The iDisc has everything it takes to replace theconventional cast iron brake disc and become the new standard in the brake discmarket. Given thecontinued particulate pollution debate in many countries and large cities aroundthe world, there is nothing standing in the way of its breakthrough.

4. Alexian Lien:

   A motorcyclist pulls up in front of me, and he starts speeding up, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down, at a point where he slowed down too fast and I wasn't able to brake fast enough, so I tapped him. ... He didn't wobble, he didn't fall off his bike, continued.

5. Dax Shepard:

   I was totally at blame, i thought I would be able to slide in between, but someone turned in and I was already under full brake and I couldn't go anywhere.

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