Definition of "Brake" :

noun: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

noun: anything that slows or hinders a process

"She wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage."

noun: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

noun: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

noun: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

verb: cause to stop by applying the brakes

"Brake the car before you go into a curve."

verb: stop travelling by applying a brake

"We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road."