tobreak

== English == === Alternative forms === tobrake, to-break, to break === Etymology === From Middle English tobreken (“to break apart, break in pieces, shatter”), from Old English tōbrecan, tebrecan (“to break in pieces, break apart”), from Proto-West Germanic *tebrekan, from Proto-Germanic *tebrekaną (“to break apart”), equivalent to to- (“apart, in pieces”) +‎ break. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrekan (“to break apart”), German Low German tobreken (“to break, shatter, smash”), Middle Dutch tebreken (“to break apart, shatter”), German zerbrechen (“to break apart, shatter, smash”). === Verb === tobreak (third-person singular simple present tobreaks, present participle tobreaking, simple past tobroke, past participle tobroken) (ambitransitive, obsolete) To break completely; crush. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To break apart; break in pieces. === See also === all to