Brake

noun

breɪk

Noun

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”
Type of:ConstraintRestraint
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Similar:Bracken
Type of:Fern
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
Type of:BrushCoppiceCopse
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
Type of:Fern
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Type of:ConstraintRestraint

cause to stop by applying the brakes
“brake the car before you go into a curve”
Type of:Stop
stop travelling by applying a brake
“We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”
Type of:HaltStop