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upbreak

upbreak verb: to break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Verb

upbreak (third-person singular simple present upbreaks, present participle upbreaking, simple past upbroke, past participle upbroken)

  1. (intransitive) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Noun

upbreak (plural upbreaks)

  1. A break-up or division.
    • The most ignorant will be wiser than the wisest now is by the time these words can be published, but we think this anticipation is likely to be realised: the probability of upbreak in the "Church" itself increases as the hour of the meeting of the Council approaches.1870, The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume 19, page 134
  2. A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
    • the upbreak of the fountains of my heart1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

upbreak meaning in Tamil

upbreak in Tamil

பிள

Forms of upbreak

Verb
third-person singular presentupbreaks
present participleupbreaking
pastupbroke
past participleupbroken
Noun
pluralupbreaks

Origin of upbreak

From up- + break.

Questions about upbreak

What does upbreak mean?
Upbreak means to break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
What is upbreak in Tamil?
Upbreak in Tamil is பிள. See Upbreak meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upbreak?
Upbreak can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of upbreak?
The past tense of upbreak is upbroke.

Words near upbreak in the dictionary

  1. upbraids
  2. upbray
  3. upbrayed
  4. upbraying
  5. upbrays
  6. upbreak
  7. upbreaking
  8. upbreakings
  9. upbreaks
  10. upbreathe
  11. upbreathed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upbreak (page history and authors); upbreak (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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