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abroach

US/əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/

abroach verb: to set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

Verb

abroach (third-person singular simple present abroaches, present participle abroaching, simple past and past participle abroached)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
    • on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach1633, George Herbert, The Agonie

Adverb

abroach (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
    • Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world...1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115
    • […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.1820, Walter Scott, chapter 11, in Ivanhoe, volume 3, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 285
  2. (obsolete) In a state to be diffused or propagated.
    • I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...
    • When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64
    Synonyms:
    afoot, astir

Adjective

abroach (not comparable)

  1. Tapped; broached.
  2. Astir; moving about.

abroach meaning in Tamil

abroach in Tamil

பொங்கத் துளைந்த நிலையில், கலங்கலாகி

Synonyms of abroach

Forms of abroach

third-person singular presentabroaches
present participleabroaching
past participleabroached
pastabroached

Origin of abroach

From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.

Words that rhyme with abroach

Questions about abroach

What does abroach mean?
Abroach means to set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
What is abroach in Tamil?
Abroach in Tamil is பொங்கத் துளைந்த நிலையில், கலங்கலாகி. See Abroach meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is abroach?
Abroach can be a verb, an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce abroach?
Abroach is pronounced /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ (US).
What is the past tense of abroach?
The past tense of abroach is abroached.

Words near abroach in the dictionary

  1. abrine
  2. abrineurin
  3. abrins
  4. abris
  5. abristle
  6. abroach
  7. abroached
  8. abroaches
  9. abroaching
  10. abroad
  11. abroadness

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