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English
Verb
breake (third-person singular simple present breakes, present participle breaking, simple past broke, past participle broken)
- Obsolete spelling of break.
c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; , quarto edition, London: P S for Andrew Wise, , published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]: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.
1620 (first performance; published 1622), Philip Messenger [i.e., Philip Massinger], Thomas Dekker, The Virgin Martir, a Tragedie. , London: Bernard Alsop for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, Act II, signature , recto:VVhat gad flye tickles ſo this Macrinus, / That vp-flinging thy tayle, he breakes thus from me.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 356: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, […].
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
breake
- inflection of breaker:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
West Frisian
Noun
breake n (plural breakes)
- diminutive of brea