verb
Meaning 1
To break in pieces, break up, destroy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
Meaning 2
To break through, interrupt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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History
Etymology
From Middle English forbreken, from Old English forbrecan (“to break up, break in pieces, violate, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *frabrekaną (“to break up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhreg- (“to break”), equivalent to for- (“fully, up”) + break. Cognate with Dutch verbreken (“to sever, disrupt”), German verbrechen (“to commit, perpetrate”).