[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["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.", "brakes,the drums, shoes, tubes, levers, etc., making up such a device on a vehicle.", "anything that has a slowing or stopping effect.", "Also called brakeman .a member of a bobsled team who operates the brake.", "Also called breaker .Textiles.a tool or machine for breaking up flax or hemp, to separate the fiber.", "Also calledpress brake.a machine for bending sheet metal to a desired shape.", "Obsolete.an old instrument of torture."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to slow or stop by means of or as if by means of a brake.Synonyms: bridle , curb , restrain , stay , arrest , halt", "to furnish with brakes.", "to process (flax or hemp) by crushing it in a brake."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to use or run a brake.", "to stop or slow upon being braked.", "to run a hoisting machine."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a place overgrown with bushes, brambles, or cane."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["any of several large or coarse ferns, especially the bracken,Pteridium aquilinum."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb", "List Items": ["simple past tense of break ."]}]