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abraid

verb
/əˈbɹeɪd/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *uz-✻ — “out”
  2. inherited from 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”
  3. inherited from abraiden

Definitions

  1. To wrench (something) out.

  2. To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.

  3. To wake up.

    • She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.
    • But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]
    • But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…]
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To spring, start, make a sudden movement.

    2. To shout out.

    3. To rise in the stomach with nausea.

    4. Alternative form of abread.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA