tobregdan

== Old English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, tō- +‎ breġdan === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /toːˈbrej.dɑn/ === Verb === tōbreġdan to pull to pieces, pull apart late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans (intransitive) to separate to distract ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tó-bregdan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.