Quick definitions from WordNet (brake)

▸ noun:  a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
▸ noun:  an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
▸ 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; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
▸ 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")
▸ name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #5756)

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▸ Also see brake