Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Breaking up; dissolving.
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- verb Present participle of
upbreak .
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Examples
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That seemed the heavens upbreaking through the earth,
Idylls of the King 2004
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Passing the gate of Wadham he meets the upbreaking of a little conventicle.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Tennyson has termed the woodland abundance of Hyacinths in full spring time as "The heavens upbreaking through the earth."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Stimulating to the fancy as was that range of low hills to the northwards, already troubled with the upbreaking of the
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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That seemed the heavens upbreaking through the earth,
Idylls of the King Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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