📖 Определения и значения для слова brake
📒 a device for slowing or stopping a vehicle
- to put/slam on the brakes
- the brake pedal
- She stopped with a squeal/screech of the brakes.
📒 a thing that stops something or makes it difficult
- High interest rates are a brake on the economy.
- The need to earn some money put the brakes on my wilder ambitions.
- High interest rates will act as a brake on the economy.
📒 to operate the brakes on a vehicle suddenly and with force
- The car skidded as he jammed on the brakes.