BRAKE
Scrabble letter values: B3R1A1K5E1 = 11
Definition
- verb stop travelling by applying a brake.
- verb cause to stop by applying the brakes.
- noun a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
- noun any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
- noun large coarse fern often several feet high. — synonyms: bracken, pasture_brake, Pteridium_aquilinum
- noun an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.
- noun anything that slows or hinders a process.
Examples
- “We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”
- “brake the car before you go into a curve”
- “essentially weed ferns”