brastv.
English regional (northern).
intransitive and transitive = burst v.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)]
breaka1000
forbreakc1000
shenec1000
burstc1250
disquattec1380
brasta1400
stonyc1440
to strike up1467
dirupt1548
unframe1548
disrump1581
split1597
crack1608
snap1679
fracture1767
disrupt1817
snop1849
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst
to-burstc893
forbursta1000
springOE
to-flyc1000
to-shootc1000
to-springc1000
to-drevea1225
to-resea1225
to-breakc1230
to go shiversc1275
to-drivec1275
to-rivec1275
to-shenec1275
to-wendc1275
debruise1297
lash13..
to-dashc1300
to-scatter13..
to-shiver13..
shiverc1330
bequash1377
shinderc1390
brasta1400
bursta1400
to-shiderc1450
to fly in pieces1488
sprent1488
splindera1500
reavec1560
dishiver1562
shatter1567
disshiver1586
split1590
slent1608
besplit1638
disrupt1657
splintera1661
rupture1734
explode1784
to ding in staves1786
to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798
spell1811
to go (also run) smash1818
to play smash1841
bust1844
splitter1860
disrump1886
to fall into staves1895
smash1904
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7170 Þat all þe bandes of him brast.
c1450 Songs & Carols 51 (Mätz.) Tyll both hys eyen in watyr gan brast.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 39 The fyry sparkis brastyng from hys eyn.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxviii. 47 Mid wounds, and clinging darts, and lances brast.
1865 M. R. Lahee Betty o' Yeps Tale 10 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) Laughin' fit to brast their soides.
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