bebreak
verbEtymology From Middle English *bebreken, *bibreken, from Old English bebrecan (“to break to pieces”), from Proto-West Germanic *bibrekan (“to break, shatter”), equivalent to be- + break. Cognate with Low German bebreken, German bebrechen.
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Ambitransitive To break to pieces; break completely; shatter; destroy.
- This miserable snare staied all his good purposes, and needs must bebreak them, to put this great Soul into full liberty.1678, Nicolas Caussin, Hawkins, The Holy Court in Five Tomes
- Additionally all rulings in the revolutionary and clerical courts are final and cannot bebreak; overturned.2008, Dr Yonah Alexander, Milton M. Hoenig, The New Iranian Leadership:
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- Did in my hall in sight of least and most Bebreak his staff, my household office stay, Bad each make shift, and rode himself away.2011, Marie Loughlin, Sandra Bell, Patricia Brace, The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose: