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brake

English

  1. 🔊 a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  2. 🔊 anything that slows or hinders a process
    “she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage”
  3. 🔊 an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  4. 🔊 any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  5. 🔊 large coarse fern often several feet high
  6. 🔊 cause to stop by applying the brakes
    “brake the car before you go into a curve”
  7. 🔊 stop travelling by applying a brake
    “We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 retranca brake
  2. 🔊 frenado brake, braking (act of braking e.g. a vehicle)
  3. 🔊 frenaje brake, braking (act of braking e.g. a vehicle)
  4. 🔊 frenada brake, braking, sudden stop (act of braking e.g. a vehicle)
  5. 🔊 frenaje brake, braking system (technical equipment used for braking)

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