Abraid

Quick meaning: Abraid is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
4. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.
6. Alternative form of abread.

Example Sentences

But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…]

She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.

But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]

Word Forms

• abraids
• abraiding
• abraided
• abray

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abrade, distrain, wreathe, abstort, abstringe, avel.

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