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trailbreak

trailbreak verb: to establish a trail for the first time.

Verb

trailbreak (third-person singular simple present trailbreaks, present participle trailbreaking, simple past and past participle trailbroke)

  1. To establish a trail for the first time.
    • The reduction in lake accesses would encourage offroad drivers to trailbreak their own roads, and the rate of soil damage would increase from its present level of 30 to 40 acres per year.1985, Lake Mead National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan, volume 2, United States National Park Service
    • Blake, Yeats, and Graves have pioneered this path in modern times and W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin trailbreaks it now.1999, Reuel Denney, Feast of Strangers: Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney

Forms of trailbreak

third-person singular presenttrailbreaks
present participletrailbreaking
past participletrailbroke
pasttrailbroke

Questions about trailbreak

What does trailbreak mean?
Trailbreak means to establish a trail for the first time.
What part of speech is trailbreak?
Trailbreak is a verb.
What is the past tense of trailbreak?
The past tense of trailbreak is trailbroke.

Words near trailbreak in the dictionary

  1. trailblazing
  2. trailboard
  3. trailboards
  4. trailboat
  5. trailboats
  6. trailbreak
  7. trailbreaker
  8. trailbreakers
  9. trailbreaking
  10. trailbreaks
  11. trailbroke

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