пребия

From Proto-Slavic *perbiti.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ijɐ

преби́я • (prebíja) first-singular present indicative, pf (imperfective преби́вам)

1. to beat up, to thrash
2. (transferred sense) to kill

   Synonym: уби́я (ubíja)

3. (colloquial) to break, to shatter
4. (typically sports) to strike again
5. (dialectal) to interrupt (someone's speech)
6. (dialectal) to traverse, to transit, to pass over or through
7. (with reference to sleep) to make feel drowsy

   Преби ме сън, така че на края заспах.

   Prebi me sǎn, taka če na kraja zaspah.

   I felt drowsy, so I fell asleep in the end.

   (literally, “sleep beat me up”)

8. (reflexive) to injure oneself significantly

   пребия се по стълбите

   prebija se po stǎlbite

   to injure oneself on the stairs

9. (reflexive, transferred sense) to kill oneself
10. (reflexive, colloquial) to overexert oneself, to commit exhaustive effort to performing some task
11. (reflexive, dialectal, archaic) to fracture, to splinter, to fragment

    войската се преби

    vojskata se prebi

    the army was divided

12. (dialectal, of milk, etc.) to curdle, to coagulate, to spoil

    Synonyms: пресека́ се (preseká se), съсека́ се (sǎseká se)

    Млекото се преби.

    Mlekoto se prebi.

    The milk went and curdled.

• “пребия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010