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abraid¹

  • /əˈbɹeɪd/

Sounds like abrade · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), of uncertain further origin. Equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

verb abraids · abraiding · abraided · abraid

  1. obsolete, transitive To wrench (something) out.
  2. obsolete, transitive To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
  3. intransitive, obsolete To wake up. She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.
  4. archaic, intransitive To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
  5. intransitive, obsolete, transitive To shout out.
  6. obsolete, transitive To rise in the stomach with nausea.

abraid²

  • /əˈbɹeɪd/

Sounds like abrade · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From Middle English abrede. More at abread.

adverb

  1. alternative, not comparable Alternative form of abread.abread

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