parbreak

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UK/pɑːˈbɹeɪk/US/pɑɹˈbɹeɪk/

verb

To vomit, spew out.

OriginMiddle French par- →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

verbparbreak (third-person singular simple present parbreaks, present participle parbreaking, simple past and past participle parbreaked)

present singular third person parbreaks · participle present parbreaking · participle past parbreaked · past parbreaked

  1. obsoleteTo vomit, spew out.

    What have ye, villayn, forged, And virulently dysgorged As though ye wolde parbrake

    a. 1539, John Skelton, How the Duke of Albany […]
nounparbreak (plural parbreaks)

plural parbreaks

  1. archaicVomit; vomiting.

    Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchpar-
  2. Englishparbreak

From Middle French par- + brake.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

parbreak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parbreak

MLA

“parbreak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parbreak. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parbreak,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parbreak.

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