brake, n.
(brakes)
freq. cnt. 2
(brakes)
freq. cnt. 2
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
brake
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hypernym
part holonym
hyponym
anything that slows or hinders a process
<noun.artifact>
brake
sample sentences
"she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage""new legislation will put the brakes on spending"
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hypernym
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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brake
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
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hypernym
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
<noun.plant>
Pteridium aquilinum bracken brake pasture brake
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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brake