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/əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ · verb
(transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap..
on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]
[…] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64, When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:
I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]
Use abroach when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abroach means (transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap..
Common synonyms include afoot, astir, broached, tapped.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
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