From Middle English tobreken, from Old English tōbrecan, tebrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *tebrekan, from Proto-Germanic *tebrekaną, equivalent to to- + break. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrekan, Middle Dutch tebreken, German zerbrechen.
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