† forbreakv.
Obsolete.
transitive.
a. To break in pieces, crush.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)]
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disquattec1380
brasta1400
stonyc1440
to strike up1467
dirupt1548
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disrump1581
split1597
crack1608
snap1679
fracture1767
disrupt1817
snop1849
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 31 Þæt man forbræce hyra sceancan.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 375 Rychard..vor brec þere hys necke atuo.
a1300 E.E. Psalter cxxiii. 7 Þe snare for-broken es in ai.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3049 Trees it for-brac.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 101 Edmond had al forbroken þe Danes.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xix. 19 Al my teethe ben wasted and forbroken.
b. To interrupt.
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the mind > language > speech > interruption > interrupt (speech) [verb (transitive)]
forbreakc1374
interrupta1420
recoupc1450
lardc1550
interturb1554
intercept1581
parenthese1635
punctuate1848
puncture1896
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. i. 108 I..for-brek þe entencioun of hir þat entended[e] ȝitte to seyne oþer þinges.
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