Dictionary

inbreak en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”).

Meanings

1. A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption; a breaking in.
   • The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 147:

Forms

Translations (4)

bg нашествие (A sudden violent inroad or incursion) · de Einbruch (A sudden violent inroad or incursion) · bg нахлуване (A sudden violent inroad or incursion) · de Eindringen (A sudden violent inroad or incursion)

inbreak en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
   • "You come back to inbreak again, or you bring kids to do it for you?" 2004, William McCloskey, Raiders:
   • Our deepest longing lies wholeheartedly in our single hearted desire for God, in following Jesus, Icon of Wisdom Sophia as he continues to INBREAK [meaning “insert itself”] in our time and in giving ourselves unconditionally for healing of the Earth. 2007, Sarah McFarland Taylor, Green sisters:
   • Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak, to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose. 2003, John S. McClure, The Four Codes of Preaching:

Forms

Deriveds

inbreaking

Translations (3)

de eindringen (to make an incursion into) · de einbrechen (to make an incursion into) · de einfallen (to make an incursion into)