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forbreak

forbreak verb: to break in pieces, break up, destroy.

Verb

forbreak (third-person singular simple present forbreaks, present participle forbreaking, simple past forbroke, past participle forbroken)

  1. (archaic) To break in pieces, break up, destroy.
  2. (archaic) To break through, interrupt.

Forms of forbreak

third-person singular presentforbreaks
present participleforbreaking
pastforbroke
past participleforbroken

Origin of forbreak

From Middle English forbreken, from Old English forbrecan (“to break up, break in pieces, violate, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *frabrekaną (“to break up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”), equivalent to for- (“fully, up”) + break. Cognate with Dutch verbreken (“to sever, disrupt”), German verbrechen (“to commit, perpetrate”).

Questions about forbreak

What does forbreak mean?
Forbreak means to break in pieces, break up, destroy.
What part of speech is forbreak?
Forbreak is a verb.
What is the past tense of forbreak?
The past tense of forbreak is forbroke.

Words near forbreak in the dictionary

  1. forbodings
  2. forbore
  3. forborn
  4. forborne
  5. forbought
  6. forbreak
  7. forbreaking
  8. forbreaks
  9. forbroke
  10. forbroken
  11. forbs

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