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(verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes |
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Related Words: skid, stop |
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(verb) stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road" |
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Related Words: halt, stop |
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(noun) used to slow or stop a vehicle |
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Related Words: airbrake, brake system, brakes, coaster brake, constraint, emergency, emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake, restraint |
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(noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
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Related Words: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
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(noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants |
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Related Words: fern |
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(noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan |
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Synonyms: Pteridium aquilinum, bracken, pasture brake |
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Related Words: fern |
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