Definitions for brakes

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brakes brake

Spelling: [breyk]

IPA: /breɪk/

Brakes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in brakes (abekrs).

Definitions for brakes

noun

1. a device for slowing or stopping a vehicle or other moving mechanism by the absorption or transfer of the energy of momentum, usually by means of friction.
2. brakes, the drums, shoes, tubes, levers, etc., making up such a device on a vehicle.
3. anything that has a slowing or stopping effect.
4. Also called brakeman. a member of a bobsled team who operates the brake.
5. Also called breaker. Textiles. a tool or machine for breaking up flax or hemp, to separate the fiber.
6. Also called press brake. a machine for bending sheet metal to a desired shape.
7. Obsolete. an old instrument of torture.
8. a place overgrown with bushes, brambles, or cane.
9. any of several large or coarse ferns, especially the bracken, Pteridium aquilinum.

verb

1. simple past tense of break.

verb (used with object)

1. to slow or stop by means of or as if by means of a brake.
2. to furnish with brakes.
3. to process (flax or hemp) by crushing it in a brake.

verb (used without object)

1. to use or run a brake.
2. to stop or slow upon being braked.
3. to run a hoisting machine.

Origin of brakes

1400-50; late Middle English Middle Dutch, Middle Low German; akin to break

Examples for brakes

Philip drew a long breath: there was a cloud of dust; the women in the brakes were laughing.

Tom had shut off the engine and applied the brakes, as the girls shrieked.

The truck came to a jarring stop as the driver jammed on the brakes.

At this juncture the brakes began to shriek and grind upon the wheels.

He sounded two long whistle blasts as a signal to throw off brakes.

The woman allegedly decided to hit her brakes suddenly and veer toward an exit, losing Tirico.

“I just slammed on the brakes and damn near had an accident,” says the legendary singer, dancer and actress.

But she pumped the brakes when she found out she was pregnant with her second daughter.

That would be the job of the brakes, which cannot actually stop hard-packed snow from being, y'know, slippery.

Both the non-handshake and his speech might be seen as Rouhani tapping the brakes, not slamming them.