Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

breake

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: breake
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete spelling of break.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."
"VVhat gad flye tickles ſo this Macrinus, / That vp-flinging thy tayle, he breakes thus from me."
"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,[…]."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

breakes (present, singular) breaking (participle, present) broke (past) broken (participle, past)

Questions

What does breake mean?: Obsolete spelling of break.

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