Breake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Breake is a verb meaning Obsolete spelling of break.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of break.
Example Sentences
VVhat gad flye tickles ſo this Macrinus, / That vp-flinging thy tayle, he breakes thus from me.
And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue,[…].
Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.
Word Forms
- breakes
- breaking
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include break, tobreak, bebreak, bruck, forbreak, break up.
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