inbreak

present singular third person inbreaks · participle present inbreaking · past inbroke · participle past inbroken

1. transitiveTo 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

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   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

   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

plural inbreaks

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