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be-brecan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
be-brecan, he, heó -briceþ, -bricþ; p. -bræc, pl. -brǽcon ; pp. -brocen
Wright's OE grammar
§647;
To break off deprive by breaking, to break to pieces, consume; carpendo spoliare, confringere, consumere
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  • Beám heó abreóteþ and bebriceþ telgum

    it crusheth the tree and deprives it of its twigs,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 592
    • ;
    • Sal. 295
    • .
  • Bebrocene wǽron ealle hyra hláfas

    consumpti erant omnes eorum panes,

    • Gr. Dial. 2, 21
    • .
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v.  be-briceþ be-brocen.
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