A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of Students

by J. R. Clark Hall

[ ābrēac] pret. 3 sg. of [ābrūcan].

[ ābrēat] pret. 3 sg. of [ābrēotan].

[ ābrecan⁴] to break, break to pieces, break down, conquer, capture, violate, destroy, Æ, AO, CP: break away from.

[ ābrēdan³] to move quickly, draw, unsheath, wench, pull out, Mt: withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, Æ, AO. ūp ābroden drawn up, raised up: start up, awake. [‘abraid’]

[ ābredwian] to lay low, kill, B 2619.

[ ābrēgan] to alarm, terrify.

ābregdan = [ābrēdan]

[ ābrēotan²] to destroy, kill.

[ ābrēotnes] f. extermination, OET 182.

[ ābrēoðan²] (intr.) to fail, decay, deteriorate, perish, be destroyed, Ma; Æ. ābroðen (pp.) degenerate, reprobate, ÆGr. (tr. and wk.) destroy. [v. ‘brethe’]