English

Alternative forms

• to-break, to break

Verb

tobreak ‎(third-person singular simple present tobreaks, present participle tobreaking, simple past tobroke, past participle tobroken)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break completely; crush.

   And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull. --Judges 9:53, KJV

2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To break apart; break in pieces.

   And in the floor, with nose and mouth tobroke, They walwe as doon two pigges in a poke --Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale