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According to dictionary.com, here are the differences:
- Breaks means to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments
- Brakes are 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 and the drums, shoes, tubes, levers, etc., making up such a device on a vehicle.
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