Forbreak

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To break in pieces, break up, destroy. archaic
  2. 2
    To break through, interrupt. archaic

Etymology

From Middle English forbreken, from Old English forbrecan (“to break up, break in pieces, violate, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *frabrekaną (“to break up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”), equivalent to for- (“fully, up”) + break. Cognate with Dutch verbreken (“to sever, disrupt”), German verbrechen (“to commit, perpetrate”).

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