An archaic or dialectal past tense form meaning to awake or suddenly start up; to make a quick movement.
From Old English 'abraedan' or similar Germanic roots. An archaic form that appears in Middle English literature but fell out of use by the modern period.
Finding 'abraid' in old poetry is like discovering a linguistic fossil—it shows how verbs describing sudden movement were once common but vanished from everyday speech.
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