brake

brake is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: imp. of Break. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. imp. of Break.
2. noun. A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.
3. noun. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
4. transitive verb. An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
5. transitive verb. An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
6. transitive verb. A baker's kneading though.
7. transitive verb. A sharp bit or snaffle.
8. transitive verb. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
9. transitive verb. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
10. transitive verb. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
11. transitive verb. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
12. transitive verb. A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
13. transitive verb. An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
14. transitive verb. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
15. transitive verb. An ancient instrument of torture.
16. of Break
17. noun. a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
18. 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"

19. noun. an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
20. noun. large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

    Synonyms: bracken

21. noun. any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
22. verb. cause to stop by applying the brakes

    "brake the car before you go into a curve"

23. verb. stop travelling by applying a brake

    "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

Synonyms

bracken

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brake:

baker, break, kebar

Common word forms

braked, braker, brakes, braking, brakeless

Words from these letters

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