Synonyms of the word

brake

• n. A fern; bracken.
• n. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
• n. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
• n. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.).
• n. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
• v. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead.
• v. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow.
• n. (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
• n. (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
• n. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls…
• n. A baker's kneading trough.
• n. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
• n. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
• v. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
• v. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
• n. (obsolete) A cage.
• n. (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense of break.

bracken

• n. (uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium, that forms dense thickets; often…
• n. (uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.

brush

• n. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle,…
• n. A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary…
• n. The act of brushing something.
• n. (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees (Wikipedia).
• n. A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
• n. The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
• n. (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
• n. (archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
• n. (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
• n. (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
• n. (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play…
• n. (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
• n. (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export,…
• v. (transitive) To clean with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To apply with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
• v. (transitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
• v. (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

brushwood

• n. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
• n. Small trees and shrubs.

constraint

• n. Something that constrains; a restriction.
• n. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
• n. (databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

coppice

• n. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes,…
• v. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote…
• v. To sprout from the stump.

copse

• n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

fern

• n. Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta…

halt

• v. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
• v. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay;…
• v. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
• v. (intransitive) To stop marching.
• v. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
• v. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
• v. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
• n. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
• n. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
• adj. (archaic) Lame, limping.
• v. To limp.
• v. To waver.
• v. To falter.
• n. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

restraint

• n. (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
• n. (uncountable) control or caution; reserve.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

thicket

• n. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
• n. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
• n. (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in…