break, brake

Break or break means render in pieces, as a dish or brittle object, or cause to malfunction, as a machine or device--
Don't drop the dish. You'll break it.
Don't let the children play with the phone. They'll break it.
Break also means a pause in work or some other action--
Let's break for lunch.
We have a coffee break at 10 am.
Break may mean a physical gap or opening--
Look for a break in their defenses.

Brake or brake ( rhymes with break ) means the device that stops a machine--
Don't step on the brake if you don't need to stop or slow down.
The locomotive engineer pulled on the brake to stop the train.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"If you slam on the brake the dish will fall off of the seat and break."

Note--the past tense of "break" is "broke"--
Who broke the lamp?
The past and present participle of "break" is "broken" --
The lamp is broken.
The lamp was broken.

Note #2--The past tense of "brake", when used as a verb ( action word ) is "braked"--
He braked the car and skidded into a ditch.

Note #3--"brake" or "bracken"  also means clusters of ferns or shrubs--
There were two bunnies hiding in the bracken.
A deer hid in the brake, hoping we wouldn't notice her.