brake

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
    

• an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

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

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

• a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Verb

• cause to stop by applying the brakes
  • brake the car before you go into a curve
    

• stop travelling by applying a brake
  • We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bracken , pasture brake , Pteridium aquilinum