Middle English Dictionary Entry

abreiden v.(1)
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

Note: Cp. breiden.
1.
To move (sth.) suddenly or violently: (a) thrust; snatch (away); lift; draw (a sword); raise (the eyes or the eyelids); fig. save (sb. from sin); (b) to cast down, destroy.
2.
(a) To move suddenly, start up; of sighs: to burst forth; ~ up; (b) ~ to, to move toward (sth.), approach; ~ on, come close to, resemble.
3.
(a) To start from sleep, recover from a swoon, awake; ~ oute of slep (slumber, sweven, swough); (b) to start up from a fit of musing, recover from astonishment, shame, weeping; to recover one's speech, break silence; ~ abak, ~ oute of; (c) to start to speak; also, to speak, talk.