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tobreak

tobreak verb: to break completely; crush.

Verb

tobreak (third-person singular simple present tobreaks, present participle tobreaking, simple past tobroke, past participle tobroken)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To break completely; crush.
    • And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 9:53
  2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To break apart; break in pieces.

Forms of tobreak

third-person singular presenttobreaks
present participletobreaking
pasttobroke
past participletobroken
alternative formtobrake
alternative formto-break
alternative formto break

Origin of tobreak

From Middle English tobreken (“to break apart, break in pieces, shatter”), from Old English tōbrecan, tebrecan (“to break in pieces, break apart”), from Proto-West Germanic *tebrekan, from Proto-Germanic *tebrekaną (“to break apart”), equivalent to to- (“apart, in pieces”) + break. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrekan (“to break apart”), German Low German tobreken (“to break, shatter, smash”), Middle Dutch tebreken (“to break apart, shatter”), German zerbrechen (“to break apart, shatter, smash”).

Questions about tobreak

What does tobreak mean?
Tobreak means to break completely; crush.
What part of speech is tobreak?
Tobreak is a verb.
What is the past tense of tobreak?
The past tense of tobreak is tobroke.

Words near tobreak in the dictionary

  1. tobra
  2. tobramycin
  3. tobras
  4. tobravirus
  5. tobraviruses
  6. tobreak
  7. tobreaking
  8. tobroken
  9. tobruise
  10. tobruised
  11. tobruises

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