tobreak

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Definition von tobreak im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

to break apart, break in pieces

And in the floor, with nose and mouth tobroke, They walwe as doon two pigges in a poke --Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale.

to break completely, crush

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull. --Judges 9:53, KJV.

To break completely; to break in pieces

Etymologie

() From Middle English tobreken (“to break apart, break in pieces, shatter”), from Old English tōbrecan, tebrecan (“to break in pieces, break apart”), from Proto-Germanic *tō-brikanan (“to break apart”), equivalent to to- +‎ break. Cognate with Middle Dutch tebreken (“to break apart, shatter”), German zerbrechen (“to break apart, shatter, smash”). More at to, break.