English Explanatory Dictionary

tobreak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To break completely; crush.
  2. To break apart; break in pieces.

Word forms

tobreak tobreaks tobreaking tobroke tobroken tobrake to-break to break

Etymology

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”).

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