Inbreak

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption; a breaking in.

    "The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms."

Verb
  1. 1
    To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt. transitive

    "Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak, to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose."

Synonyms

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inroad

Example

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"Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak, to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose."

Etymology

From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”).

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